单词 | the three sisters |
释义 | > as lemmasthe three sisters 5. A member of a group of female mythological or imaginary beings, as the Muses or the Fates, etc.; esp. in the three sisters and variants. Cf. the fatal sisters at fatal adj. 4a, the Weird Sisters at weird adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > the Fates weirdsc725 ParcaeeOE the three sistersa1400 destiny14.. the Weird Sistersc1400 (the) fatal dames, ladies, sisters1552 the three Fatals1575 fate1600 the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > the (three) Fates weirdsc725 ParcaeeOE the three sistersa1400 (the) fatal dames, ladies, sisters1552 the three Fatals1575 fate1600 a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 572 (MED) Ȝyf þou trowest..Þat þre sustren ben shapandys, And comun þere þe chylde ys bore, And shapyn hyt wele..For wykked beleue þat þou art ynne Þey make þe chylde to falle yn synne. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 1401 The myghty Muse..caliope And hir eighte sustren eke. c1450 (?a1405) J. Lydgate Complaint Black Knight (Fairf.) l. 488 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 402 Er I was borne, my destanye was sponne By Parcas sustren, to sle me if they conne. a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 505 in Poems (1981) 149 Scho send hym doun vnto the sisteris thre. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Two Mortimers f. iiiiv Whose fatall threde false fortune nedes would reele, Ere it were twysted by the systers thre. 1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow (Hunterian Club) 79 I should be confirmed..euen to ouercome the insupportable trauailes of the sisters. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. v. 8 These weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to the comming on of time. View more context for this quotation 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 20 in Justa Edouardo King Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well. 1723 C. Johnson Love in Forest v. 64 O Sisters three, Come, come to me, with Hands as pale as Milk; Lay him in Gore, since you have shore, with Sheers, this Thread of Silk. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 59 The harmonious Muse And her persuasive sisters. 1768 T. Gray Fatal Sisters in Poems 83 Sisters, weave the web of death. 1859 Habits Good Society v. 194 Should the weird sisters, in a fit of bad temper [etc.]. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 325 Hark on a joyous day what prophet-story the sisters Open surely to thee. 1910 Outing Apr. 27 What see the Sisters who watch so near? 1957 T. Wilder Drunken Sisters 6 These are the great sisters—the Fates. Clotho weaves the threads of life; Lachesis measures the length of each; Atropos cuts them short. 2015 Citizen (Tanzania) (Nexis) 5 Nov. Whether this coincidence was by deliberate design..or was purely the work of the Three Sisters of Fate, is of little or no consequence! < as lemmas |
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