英语词汇“active life”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to contemplative or speculative.

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the world > action or operation > doing > [adjective] > active as opposed to contemplative

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practica1425

practive1543

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 199 Holy Writ ous tekþ tuo maneres of liue..Þe uerste is yhote workuol (actiue)..Þe oþer is yhote resteuol (contemplatiue).

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 236 (MED) Actyf lyf or Contemplatyf, Crist wolde hit alse.

1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 63 There is maad mencion of two perfit lyves, that actif and contemplatif comounli ben callid, ffulli figurid by Marie and Martha hir sister.

a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 2 Soche one..haþ..purposed him to be a parfite folower of Criste, not only in actyue leuyng, bot in souereinnest pointe of contemplatife leuing.

a1500 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Royal) in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 25 Vnto thes men itt longith som tyme to vsen werkis of mercy in actife liffe.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 3 But wether hyt [sc. perfection] stond in the actyve lyfe..or els in the contemplative..hyt ys not al sure.

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 58 There is amongst men a trifolde kinde of lyfe, Actiue..Speculatiue... The thirde..a lewde lyfe, an idle and vaine lyfe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 270 My speculatiue and actiue [1623 offic'd] instruments.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 14 Philosophy,..concerns either action or contemplation (thence assuming two names, Contemplative and Active) the Active consisting in practise of morall Actions, the contemplative, in penetration of abstruse Physicall causes, and the nature of the Divinity.

1726 T. Ecclestone Way to Happiness 264 Love is..always working, either in the active Life for the Service of it's Beloved, or in the Contemplative, thinking of him.

1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 200 He alleged that God had called him to a state in which the active and contemplative life are joined together.

1828 D. Stewart Wks. VI. 122 We are led to apply the character of activity to those whose bodily activity is the most remarkable, and to distinguish mankind into two classes, the Active and the Speculative.

1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. 71 The morbid broodings which active life reduces to their lowest degree in most young men.

1933 F. J. Sheed Map of Life xi. 108 At one end is the contemplative life, which is almost wholly direct prayer: at the other end is the active life, but this can and should be prayer also.

2000 M. Hebblethwaite in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 226/1 Ignatius Loyola's ‘Spiritual Exercises’ are enthusiastically welcomed by many as a classic foundation for the spirituality of an active life.

单词	active life
释义	> as lemmas active life a. Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to contemplative or speculative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [adjective] > active as opposed to contemplative active1340 practica1425 practive1543 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 199 Holy Writ ous tekþ tuo maneres of liue..Þe uerste is yhote workuol (actiue)..Þe oþer is yhote resteuol (contemplatiue). c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 236 (MED) Actyf lyf or Contemplatyf, Crist wolde hit alse. 1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 63 There is maad mencion of two perfit lyves, that actif and contemplatif comounli ben callid, ffulli figurid by Marie and Martha hir sister. a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 2 Soche one..haþ..purposed him to be a parfite folower of Criste, not only in actyue leuyng, bot in souereinnest pointe of contemplatife leuing. a1500 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Royal) in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 25 Vnto thes men itt longith som tyme to vsen werkis of mercy in actife liffe. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 3 But wether hyt [sc. perfection] stond in the actyve lyfe..or els in the contemplative..hyt ys not al sure. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 58 There is amongst men a trifolde kinde of lyfe, Actiue..Speculatiue... The thirde..a lewde lyfe, an idle and vaine lyfe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 270 My speculatiue and actiue [1623 offic'd] instruments. View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 14 Philosophy,..concerns either action or contemplation (thence assuming two names, Contemplative and Active) the Active consisting in practise of morall Actions, the contemplative, in penetration of abstruse Physicall causes, and the nature of the Divinity. 1726 T. Ecclestone Way to Happiness 264 Love is..always working, either in the active Life for the Service of it's Beloved, or in the Contemplative, thinking of him. 1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 200 He alleged that God had called him to a state in which the active and contemplative life are joined together. 1828 D. Stewart Wks. VI. 122 We are led to apply the character of activity to those whose bodily activity is the most remarkable, and to distinguish mankind into two classes, the Active and the Speculative. 1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. 71 The morbid broodings which active life reduces to their lowest degree in most young men. 1933 F. J. Sheed Map of Life xi. 108 At one end is the contemplative life, which is almost wholly direct prayer: at the other end is the active life, but this can and should be prayer also. 2000 M. Hebblethwaite in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 226/1 Ignatius Loyola's ‘Spiritual Exercises’ are enthusiastically welcomed by many as a classic foundation for the spirituality of an active life. extracted from activeadj.n. < as lemmas
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