单词 | the heavens open |
释义 | > as lemmasthe heavens open c. intransitive. To burst open or come apart, esp. so as to display the interior, or create a space allowing access or view. the heavens open: it begins to rain heavily. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > become open [verb (intransitive)] openOE undo1122 unlouk1340 unfoldc1350 unshut1390 unclosea1398 opena1400 waltc1400 unstopc1440 twirl?1523 disclosec1586 OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) iv. 48 Wið nædran slite..lege ðu þa wyrte þærto, sona hit sceal openian. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2168 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 168 (MED) Heom þouȝte..Þat þe eorþe openede onder heom for-to swolewen hem a-liue. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3773 Erðe..opnede vnder ere fet. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 4373 But yon wal, which hym doth close, Opene that I may hym see. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 2235 The erth..opynd..And sodanly þei sanke to hell. a1500 ( Vision E. Leversedge in Notes & Queries Somerset & Dorset (1905) 9 27 The firmament opynd and my saule was browȝt into a fair gret lyȝt and joy. a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 302 Than opinnit the hevinnis & ranyt xl dayis. a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1594) 262 At last his shackell falleth from him,..the prison openeth and [etc.]. 1648 Polexena iv. ii. 219 He..did so vively resent it, that the most of his wounds opened againe. 1698 J. Tutchin White-Hall in Flames II. 6 Here the Earth opens, there it quakes. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 15 My Wound opened again with riding. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 170 The bony covers open and give it [sc. water] a free passage. 1808 J. Austen Let. 27 Dec. (1995) 159 Mary's face is pretty well, but she must have suffered a great deal with it—an abscess was formed & open'd. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lviii. 307 When under the feet of Korah and his company the live ground opened and swallowed them up. 1963 A. Smith Throw out Two Hands vi. 71 The heavens open in their own African fashion to turn the murram roads into sloshy causeways. 1995 Stornoway Gaz. 13 July 8/6 After 300 years his grave opens, and he comes into the ken of the living. < as lemmas |
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