| 单词 | the master |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Master b. In extended use as the Master, with reference to a revered artist, writer, etc. ΚΠ 1855 R. Browning Old Pictures in Florence viii, in Men & Women II. 34 You style them..Old Master this and Early the other, Not dreaming that Old and New are fellows. 1870 B. Harte Dickens in Camp in Overland Monthly July 90 He read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of ‘Little Nell’. 1889 G. B. Shaw in Hawk 13 Aug. 172/2 Behind the Master's house is the Master's grave; for Wagner..is ‘buried in the back garden, sir, like a Newfoundland dog’. 1937 H. G. Wells Camford Visitation v. 58 All his fancied novelties of criticism were fully foreseen by the Master [sc. Karl Marx]. 1962 Listener 14 June 1043/3 The style, a pastiche of Nabokov's..is a style less functional, more baroque, than the Master's. 1989 Movie Winter 53/2 So many other directors have thrown in their own gratuitous hommages to the Master with a nod and a wink to the knowing critics. < as lemmas |
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