| 单词 | the light of a person's life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe light of a person's life e. the light of a person's life: a person's chief source of joy, happiness, or inspiration; esp. the person that someone loves above all others. Also as a term of endearment in light of my life.Sometimes as part of an extended metaphor. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 28 Stella, the onely Plannet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire. 1613 D. Price Teares shed over Abner 4 in Spirituall Odours The holy Patriarch Iacob..lost Ioseph his ioy, the light of his life. 1691 E. Settle Distress'd Innocence v. 54 Light of my Life, forgive th' ill-manner'd Rudeness Of this ill-season'd Visit. 1725 tr. T.-S. Gueullette Chinese Tales I. 206 You do not answer me, adorable Light of my Life, will you be no more Mistress of your Heart? 1889 A. Beale Restitution II. xi. 182 He had been the light of his mother's life, the apple of his father's eye. 1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. i. 13 Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. 1974 Black Perspective in Music 2 170 He..was by profession a civil engineer; but always, music was the light of his life. 2017 Canberra Times (Nexis) 10 Dec. 7 I adored her, she was the light of my life. < as lemmas |
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