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单词 the burnt child dreads the fire
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the burnt child dreads the fire
b. Of persons: That has suffered injury or pain from fire, or agencies resembling fire; esp. in proverb, the burnt child dreads the fire.
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burnt?a1300
scaldedc1450
combustive1599
ambust1727
?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) xliii, in Anglia (1881) 4 199Brend child fuir fordredeþ [a1350 Harl. fur dredeþ]’, Quad Hending.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 116 Þe ybernde uer dret.
c1400 Rom. Rose 1820 Brent child of fier hath mych drede.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. i. sig. Fiv Burnt chylde fyre dredeth.
1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle xiii. sig. Fvij A Burnt hande dreadeth the fyre.
1674 Duke of Lauderdale in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. xxxii. 53 A burn'd Child dreads the fire.
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