| 单词 | to be shorn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be shorn a. In passive, to be shorn: to be deprived of some part or appurtenance by or as by cutting. Chiefly transferred and figurative in certain collocations originally alluding to sense 3, e.g. (of a luminary) to be shorn of its beams; to be shorn of one's strength (? in allusion to the story of Samson), of one's authority, privileges, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > be lost [verb (intransitive)] > suffer loss losec1230 leesec1300 tine1340 to lose a loss1498 vary1532 sweat1533 to be shorn1740 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 87 The tall Oak,..shorn of his leafy shade. 1778 S. Johnson Let. 3 July (1992) III. 119 He cannot bear the thought of living at—in a state of diminution; and of appearing among the gentlemen of the neighbourhood shorn of his beams. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. 23 A law, by which the Areopagus was shorn of its authority. a1849 E. A. Poe Annie in Poet. Wks. (1859) 116 Sadly I know I am shorn of my strength. 1875 F. I. Scudamore Day Dreams 8 It is shorn of its former proportions. < as lemmas |
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