| 单词 | the snake is scotched, but not killed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe snake is scotched, but not killed a. transitive. To render (something dangerous or undesirable) temporarily harmless or less harmful, without destroying it completely. Originally and frequently in the snake is scotched, but not killed and variants (see note).After Theobald's reading of Macbeth iii. ii. 13 (see quot. 1726). The word was previously rendered scorch'd, as it appears in the First Folio; subsequent (esp. 19th-cent.) editions of Shakespeare often use scotch'd, though modern scholars usually prefer scorch'd. Cf. scorch v.3 ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > make safe or secure [verb (transitive)] > make safe or not dangerous > make harmless unarm1569 to file (one's) teeth1599 cicurate1606 disenvenoma1711 scotch1726 defang1919 neutralize1937 sterilize1939 declaw1940 recuperate1967 1726 L. Theobald Shakespeare Restored App. 186 If I am not deceiv'd therefore, our Poet certainly wrote thus; We have scotch'd the Snake, not kill'd it. She'll close, and be her self. 1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn II. iv. ii. 158 The Snake was scotched, but not killed. 1798 E. Cooke Let. 19 Mar. in Ld. Auckland Jrnl. & Corr. (1862) III. 393 I fear relaxation and too much clemency; but the snake must be killed not scotched. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. ii. 85 Would that the hour were come! We will not scotch, But kill. 1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician II. ii. viii. 279 The malaria is scotched, not killed, and the intermittent returns at some future period. 1879 C. Merivale Four Lect. Early Church Hist. ii. 86 It was by Augustine most of all that the Arian heresy was scotched, if not actually killed. 1913 H. A. Jones Found. National Drama xiii. 214 The [Oxford] movement was thought to be killed. But it was only scotched, and it is the one operative force in the English Church to-day. 1941 ‘N. Blake’ Case of Abominable Snowman xxii. 250 That wasn't enough for Andrew. He wanted the snake killed, not scotched. It was partly his personal hatred for the man. 1996 Cycle Touring & Campaigning Apr. 25/4 So far, the snake has been scotched, not killed. < as lemmas |
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