| 单词 | the shades |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe shades (of night, of evening, etc.) a. the shades (of night, of evening, etc.): the darkness of night; the growing darkness after sunset. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > darkness of night nightOE murk nightc1300 shadowsa1382 night-shade1558 the shades (of night, of evening, etc.)1582 owl-light1599 black1683 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 65 Watrye shaads Aurora remooued. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 171 To dwel in solemne shades of endlesse night. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 20 O night and shades How are yee joyn'd with hell in triple knot. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 1015 The Fiend..fled Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night . View more context for this quotation 1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici 12 Sin spread once again the Shades of Night. 1717 A. Pope Corr. Sept. (1956) I. 430 The Shades of the Evening overtook me. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 6 How faint, How slow, the dawn of Beauty and of Truth, Breaks the reluctant shades of gothic night. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xx. 107 The shades come down—the day is shut. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. vii. 243 The thick shades of Night are falling. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story vii The shades of evening had by this time fallen upon the quiet city. 1841 H. W. Longfellow Excelsior 1. the shades b. the shades: the darkness of the nether world; the abode of the dead, Hades. (Often indistinguishable from the collective plural of sense 6). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > darkness of the underworld the shades1594 the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > in classical mythology helleOE Acherona1393 the shadows1490 Tartara1525 Tartarus1586 Tartaryc1588 the shades1594 Hades1599 1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iii. i. 107 When shall this soule of mine Come visite thee in the Elisian shades? 1601 T. Campion in P. Rosseter Bk. of Ayres i. xx. sig. G When thou must home to shades of vnder ground. 1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Job (1648) xxxiv. 50 No mufling Clouds, nor Shades Infernall, can From his inquiry hide offending Man. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xvii. 349 Sent by great Ajax to the Shades of Hell. 1749 T. Smollett Regicide v. ii. 68 Then let our Swords..Dismiss him to the Shades. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. vi. 6 And e'en for change of scene would seek the shades below. 1907 A. Quiller-Couch Introd. to Coleridge's Poems 1 After a third attempt to embrace his mother in the Shades. the shades a. The visible but impalpable form of a dead person, a ghost. Also, a disembodied spirit, an inhabitant of Hades (= Latin umbra); chiefly with allusion to pagan mythology. Often collective plural, the shades: the world of disembodied spirits, Hades (cf. sense 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > [noun] > spirit of deceased person ghosteOE soulOE spiritc1384 lemurc1580 shade1616 angel1787 shen1847 dybbuk1877 1616 W. Mure Misc. Poems xvii. 26 Glorefied amidst the schads dewyne. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 144 The Youth assay'd To stop her flight, and strain the flying Shade . View more context for this quotation 1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. xxviii And all as saft and gay appeird As ane Elysion shed. 1747 T. Gray Ode Eton Coll. 3 Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy Shade. 1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne iii. 85 Lucian..allows only a foot to each of the shades. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 299 Peace to his hallowed shade! 1879 C. F. Keary Dawn of Hist. x. 149 A journey after death to reach the home of shades. the Shades 10. the Shades: originally, a name for wine and beer vaults with a drinking-bar, either underground or sheltered from the sun by an arcade. Hence subsequently used, both in England and in the U.S., as a name for a retail liquor shop, or a drinking-bar attached to a hotel. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar > in club, hotel, or theatre the Shades1823 the nineteenth hole1901 dispense1934 nineteenth1948 crush bar1954 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Shades (the) at London-bridge are under Fishmongers' hall. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 315 In the cities Shades are perhaps the most numerous. 1882 E. Edwards Words, Facts, & Phrases 507 Shades... The name originated at Brighton... Numbers of other publicans, in London and elsewhere, adopted the name ‘Shades’, which is now fully established in the language as a synonym for wine vaults. < as lemmas |
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