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单词 the child unborn
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the child unborn
P2. In proverbs and proverbial phrases. the child unborn: the type of innocence or ignorance, etc.the burnt child dreads the fire: see burnt adj. 3b. children should be seen and not heard: see see v. 1a.
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OE Ælfric Homily: De Doctrina Apostolica (Hatton 115) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 623 Eft cwæð sum witega, Puer centum annorum maledictus erit: Hundteontigwintre cild byð awyrged.
a1300 in Englische Studien (1900) 31 9 (MED) I-seli child is sone ilered.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxv. 1067 Houndes and children hateþ þe ȝerde, for þey ben þerwiþ chastysede.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 1820 Brent child of fier hath mych drede.
1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) f. lxii Oure common prouerbe..Chyldren, drunkers, and fooles, can not lye.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. K Many kysse the childe for the nurces sake.
1547 Duke of Norfolk in J. Lingard Hist. Eng. (1855) V. iii. 103/1 Nor can [I] no more judge..what should be laid to my charge, than the child that was born this night.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Biiv As the Prouerbe is, Senex bis puer. An olde manne, twyse a chyld.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxviii. 124 She knows no more..of it..than the child unborn.
1827 C. Lamb Let. June in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1935) III. 90 You will have discharged your conscience, and laid the child at the right door, as they say.
1948 E. Partridge Words at War, Words at Peace 46 The Welsh express a universal truth in ‘A child in the house is a hundred enjoyments’.
2007 Victorian Stud. 49 591 Children should not be protected from self-endangerment..because only ‘the burnt child dreads the fire’.
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