| 单词 | the child is father of the man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe child is father of (also to) the man c. Proverb. the child is father of (also to) the man and variants: childhood experience determines adult character or behaviour. ΚΠ 1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 44 The Child is Father of the Man. 1824 Examiner 11 June 433/1 Mr. Canning was the cleverest boy at Eton: he is, perhaps, the cleverest man in the House of Commons..in the sense in which, according to Mr. Wordsworth, ‘the child is father to the man’. a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. vii. 130 ‘The boy is father to the man,’ it is said; and so I often thought when I looked at my boys and remembered the political history of their ancestors. 1912 Times 25 July 8/1 Give a child a toy which it especially likes. Its first question is, ‘Is it my very own?’—and the child is father of the man. 1968 Illustr. London News 7 Dec. 32/3 This film is enormously complicated.., but all it seems to be saying is that the child is father of the man. 2001 New Jersey Countryside Autumn 76 New Jersey's private country day schools all acknowledge along with poet William Wordsworth that the ‘Child is father of the man’. < as lemmas |
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