英语词汇“sugar the pill”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. [From the former practice of gilding a bitter pill so that it may be more easily swallowed.] figurative. to sugar (also gild, sweeten) the pill and variants: to disguise, or offset with compensatory benefits, the nature of something unpleasant.

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1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good ii. i. 32 Your guilded pills..slip so smoothly downe Your Subiects throates, that all (vpon a sudden) Are loosely giuen.]

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. i. 70 Selenissa had priuately guilded those pills of suspition, which shee gaue the King against Timoclea.

1654 J. Thurloe Let. in T. Birch Coll. State Papers John Thurloe (1742) II. 206 In the mean time there will be a good many provisoes..which will gild or sweeten this pill.

1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 189 Princes are not cured by bitter Medicines. It requires art to guild their Pill.

1704 J. Toland tr. P. de Boissat Fables of Æsop ciii. 356 He chose..to set forth the Maxims of Morality under a Shell of several Fictions, with intent to Sugar the Pill for weak Men.

1710 H. Bedford Vindic. Church of Eng. 210 To declare against Popery..is only the old Artifice of gilding the Pill, to make it go down the better.

1794 Ld. St. Helens Let. 14 Oct. in A. Paget Paget Papers (1896) I. 66 They [sc. the Prussian Cabinet] have no right to complain, as I observe that you continued to gild and sugar over the pill which you were directed to administer.

1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xxvi It gilded the pill which Mr. Slope had to administer.

1881 Times 31 Oct. 9/4 Will the City and its dignitaries consent thus to be eclipsed?.. The choice..is offered them in the most civil terms. Nothing is omitted that could sweeten the pill and make it palatable.

1936 V. W. Brooks Flowering of New Eng. xv. 287 He liked to administer doses of moral quinine, and he never thought of sugaring his pills.

1977 R.A.F. News 11 May 7/1 Even the resettlement grant does not sweeten the bitter pill.

1992 Guardian 2 Jan. 28/6 Musically, the sugaring of the Wagnerian pill for the Milanese is the presence of Placido Domingo in the title role.

2004 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 22 Feb. b3 The comics that The Virginian-Pilot still lavishly treats you with...continue to gild the pill of everyday living today.

a. figurative. To make sweet, agreeable, or palatable. to sugar the pill = to gild the pill at pill n.³ 3b.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > action of making pleasant > make pleasant [verb (transitive)]

sugar1412

saucec1530

gratify1577

sweetena1586

candy1592

rose-water1655

candify1777

genialize1821

sugar-coat1870

treacle1873

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > make pleasant

honeyc1390

sugar1412

sugar1603

sleek1871

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy Prol. 57 That wyth thyn hony swete Sugrest tongis of rethoricyens.

c1475 ( in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 145 Thy right ay sugre with remyssioun.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxvii. sig. Zz3 The messenger..hauing euer vsed to sugre any thing which his Maister was to receaue.

1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 51 To baite the people, and sugar their subiection.

1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 194 Bad love is sugered full of quaint wantonesses.

1681 Heraclitus Ridens 5 July 2/1 Jest. Oh! Mr. Shamm's..turn'd true Protestant. Earn. Nay, I thought so by their sugaring the Oaths.

1878 C. Gibbon For the King (new ed.) iii Madam, I can sugar my pills, but I cannot sugar my words.]

1936 V. W. Brooks Flowering of New Eng. xv. 287 He liked to administer doses of moral quinine, and he never thought of sugaring his pills.

1954 N. Mitford Madame de Pompadour xviii. 237 To sugar the pill of what was, in fact, his dismissal, a Cardinal's hat was procured for Bernis by Stainville.

1955 E. Pound Section: Rock-drill lxxxix. 55 Louis Philippe suggested that Jackson stand firm And not sugar his language.

1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends v. ii. 521 The bishop sugared the request with his smile.

1978 P. Bailey Leisure & Class in Victorian Eng. ii. 54 The entertainments..were devised to sugar the pill of instruction.

absolute.a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 215 These sentences to sugar, or to gall, Being strong on both sides, are equiuocall.

单词	sugar the pill
释义	> as lemmas to sugar (also gild, sweeten) the pill b. [From the former practice of gilding a bitter pill so that it may be more easily swallowed.] figurative. to sugar (also gild, sweeten) the pill and variants: to disguise, or offset with compensatory benefits, the nature of something unpleasant. ΚΠ 1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good ii. i. 32 Your guilded pills..slip so smoothly downe Your Subiects throates, that all (vpon a sudden) Are loosely giuen.] 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. i. 70 Selenissa had priuately guilded those pills of suspition, which shee gaue the King against Timoclea. 1654 J. Thurloe Let. in T. Birch Coll. State Papers John Thurloe (1742) II. 206 In the mean time there will be a good many provisoes..which will gild or sweeten this pill. 1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 189 Princes are not cured by bitter Medicines. It requires art to guild their Pill. 1704 J. Toland tr. P. de Boissat Fables of Æsop ciii. 356 He chose..to set forth the Maxims of Morality under a Shell of several Fictions, with intent to Sugar the Pill for weak Men. 1710 H. Bedford Vindic. Church of Eng. 210 To declare against Popery..is only the old Artifice of gilding the Pill, to make it go down the better. 1794 Ld. St. Helens Let. 14 Oct. in A. Paget Paget Papers (1896) I. 66 They [sc. the Prussian Cabinet] have no right to complain, as I observe that you continued to gild and sugar over the pill which you were directed to administer. 1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xxvi It gilded the pill which Mr. Slope had to administer. 1881 Times 31 Oct. 9/4 Will the City and its dignitaries consent thus to be eclipsed?.. The choice..is offered them in the most civil terms. Nothing is omitted that could sweeten the pill and make it palatable. 1936 V. W. Brooks Flowering of New Eng. xv. 287 He liked to administer doses of moral quinine, and he never thought of sugaring his pills. 1977 R.A.F. News 11 May 7/1 Even the resettlement grant does not sweeten the bitter pill. 1992 Guardian 2 Jan. 28/6 Musically, the sugaring of the Wagnerian pill for the Milanese is the presence of Placido Domingo in the title role. 2004 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 22 Feb. b3 The comics that The Virginian-Pilot still lavishly treats you with...continue to gild the pill of everyday living today. extracted from pilln.³ to sugar the pill a. figurative. To make sweet, agreeable, or palatable. to sugar the pill = to gild the pill at pill n.³ 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > action of making pleasant > make pleasant [verb (transitive)] sugar1412 saucec1530 gratify1577 sweetena1586 candy1592 rose-water1655 candify1777 genialize1821 sugar-coat1870 treacle1873 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > make pleasant honeyc1390 sugar1412 sugar1603 sleek1871 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy Prol. 57 That wyth thyn hony swete Sugrest tongis of rethoricyens. c1475 ( in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 145 Thy right ay sugre with remyssioun. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxvii. sig. Zz3 The messenger..hauing euer vsed to sugre any thing which his Maister was to receaue. 1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 51 To baite the people, and sugar their subiection. 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 194 Bad love is sugered full of quaint wantonesses. 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 5 July 2/1 Jest. Oh! Mr. Shamm's..turn'd true Protestant. Earn. Nay, I thought so by their sugaring the Oaths. 1794 Ld. St. Helens Let. 14 Oct. in A. Paget Paget Papers (1896) I. 66 They [sc. the Prussian Cabinet] have no right to complain, as I observe that you continued to gild and sugar over the pill which you were directed to administer. 1878 C. Gibbon For the King (new ed.) iii Madam, I can sugar my pills, but I cannot sugar my words.] 1936 V. W. Brooks Flowering of New Eng. xv. 287 He liked to administer doses of moral quinine, and he never thought of sugaring his pills. 1954 N. Mitford Madame de Pompadour xviii. 237 To sugar the pill of what was, in fact, his dismissal, a Cardinal's hat was procured for Bernis by Stainville. 1955 E. Pound Section: Rock-drill lxxxix. 55 Louis Philippe suggested that Jackson stand firm And not sugar his language. 1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends v. ii. 521 The bishop sugared the request with his smile. 1978 P. Bailey Leisure & Class in Victorian Eng. ii. 54 The entertainments..were devised to sugar the pill of instruction. absolute.a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 215 These sentences to sugar, or to gall, Being strong on both sides, are equiuocall. View more context for this quotation extracted from sugarv. < as lemmas
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