| 单词 | stumbling-stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstumbling-stone stumbling-stone n. = stumbling-block n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle hinderc1200 withsetting1340 obstaclec1385 traversea1393 mara1400 bayc1440 stoppagec1450 barrace1480 blocka1500 objecta1500 clog1526 stumbling-stone1526 bar1530 (to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548 stumbling-stock1548 hindrance1576 a log in one's way1579 crossbar1582 log1589 rub1589 threshold1600 scotch1601 dam1602 remora1604 obex1611 obstructiona1616 stumbling-blocka1616 fence1639 affront1642 retardance1645 stick1645 balk1660 obstruent1669 blockade1683 sprun1684 spoke1689 cross cause1696 uncomplaisance1707 barrier1712 obstruct1747 dike1770 abatis1808 underbrush1888 bunker1900 bump1909 sprag1914 hurdle1924 headwind1927 mudhole1933 monkey wrench1937 roadblock1945 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. ix. 33 Beholde I put in syon a stomblynge stone and a rocke which shall make men faule [Gk. λίθον προσκόμματος καὶ πέτραν σκανδάλου]. 1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 34 God he is all that layis ane stumling stane, Quhilk may the cause be of our bretheringis fall. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 294 The regularity of the universe was always a great stumbling-stone to the Epicuræans. 1782 W. Cowper tr. V. Bourne Glow-worm in W. Cowper Poems 336 Nor crush a worm, whose useful light Might serve..To shew a stumbling stone by night. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard (1894) ii. i. 47 Some scurril children that lurked near Set there by Satan for my stumbling-stone. < as lemmas |
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