单词 | the life of |
释义 | > as lemmasthe life (and soul) of (something, esp. a party) a. In extended use: something which represents the cause or source of living or of vitality; a vivifying or animating principle; a person who or that which makes or keeps a thing alive (in various senses); ‘soul’; ‘essence’. In modern use chiefly in the life (and soul) of (something, esp. a party).In quot. 1715: (poetic (apparently an isolated use)) = lifeblood n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun] souleOE lifeOE spiritusOE bloodOE ghostOE life and soulOE quickship?c1225 quicknessc1230 breatha1300 spirita1325 spark1382 naturec1385 sparkle1388 livelinessa1398 rational soula1398 spiracle1398 animal spirit?a1425 vital spiritc1450 soul of the world1525 candle1535 fire1576 three souls1587 vitality?1592 candlelight1596 substance1605 vivacity1611 animality1615 vividity1616 animals1628 life spring1649 archeus1651 vital1670 spirituosity1677 springs of life1681 microcosmetor1684 vital force1702 vital spark (also flame)1704 stamen1718 vis vitae1752 prana1785 Purusha1785 jiva1807 vital force1822 heartbeat1828 world-soul1828 world-spirit1828 life energy1838 life force1848 ghost soul1869 will to live1871 biogen1882 ki1893 mauri1897 élan vital1907 orgone1942 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) x. 262 Þæs lichaman lif is seo sawul, & þære saule lif is god. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 126 (MED) Charite, þet is, þe guodnesse and þe worþ and þet lyf of þe oþre uirtues. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. iv. 13 Hold discipline..for it is thi lyf [a1425 L.V. lijf, L. vita]. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 1692 (MED) Als þe saule es lyf of þe body, Swa þe lyfe of þe saule es God allmyghty. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxxii. 109 The wyne, quhilk is lyf and hele to mankynde. a1530 T. Lupset Treat. Charitie (1533) f. 4 If you nowe wyll considre, what is the founteyne lyfe and soule of mans vertue, the spacinge and rote of al his good werkes. 1568 E. Dering Sparing Restraint 110 As the common bread, which we eate daily, is the life of the body: so this bread supersubstantiall is the life of the soule. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 193 Why there you toucht the life of our designe. View more context for this quotation a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 17 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) The length of the Cable, is the life of the Ship in all extreamities. 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη 80 That fiduciary and fervent application of their spirits wherein consists the very life and soul of Prayer. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health (1697) iv. 79 Water and Air are the true Life and Power of every Being. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 198 'Tis the Life of fine Water-works to be well fed. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 609 The warm Life came issuing from the Wound. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 73 These indeed were the Life and Soul of all the rest, and it was to their Courage that all the rest ow'd the Resolution they shewd. 1797 R. M. Roche Children of Abbey (ed. 2) I. xvii. 309 They had assembled a number of their neighbours, among whom were a little fat priest, called father O'Gallaghan, considered the life of every party, and a blind piper. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xiii. 184 Ballets incidental to the piece are the very life and soul of a play. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. i. 9 Sir Thomas was indeed the life of the party. View more context for this quotation 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xliii. 492 Mr. Pecksniff's young gentlemen were the life and soul of the Dragon. 1897 ‘M. Corelli’ Ziska xv. 324 Armand Gervase..was making himself the life and soul of everything at the Mena House Hotel. 1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. iii. ix. 595 He's very much the official life-and-soul-of-the-party. 1939 Collier's 21 Jan. 40/1 The other new words came in a steady flood: Big time..the borscht circuit (Catskill Mt. summer resorts booking life-of-the-party m.c.'s). 1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 33 When the life of the party wants to express the idea of a pretty woman in mime, he undulates his two hands. 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names iv. 85 ‘She wasn't always such a sourpuss,’ explained my aunt... ‘Before the last war,’ she confided, ‘Violet was quite the life and soul of the soirée, singing silly ballads and larking the night away.’ < as lemmas |
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