| 单词 | this life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthis life c. this life (similarly the (also this) present life) (in biblical use or allusion) the earthly state of human existence, life on earth. Contrasted with the future life (also another life, the next life, the life to come, etc.) the state of existence after death (see also future adj. 1b). Cf. this adj. 1c, next world n. at next adj., adv., and n. Compounds 3.See also to depart from (this) life at depart v. 7, to depart this life at depart v. 8. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > present life worldeOE this lifeOE world-lifeOE sithea1225 journey?c1225 pilgrimagec1384 weeping-dalec1400 valec1446 peregrinationc1475 scene1662 shades1816 earth life1842 macro-world1968 the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > reward of > eternal life another lifeOE eternity1604 hence1884 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xv. 302 Seo swyðre hand getacnað þæt ece lif, & seo wynstre ðis andwearde lif [L. vita praesens]. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxii. 457 Ge lufiað þis lif [L. istam vitam] on þam þe ge mid geswince wuniað. OE Genesis A (1931) 1627 Þa se rinc ageaf eorðcunde ead, sohte oðer lif. OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) viii. 14 Þa ðe gehyraþ, & of carum & of welum & of lustum þiss lifes [L. vitae] synt forþrysmede. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 9 (MED) Al þet ileafule folc of iudeus..weren strongliche ibunden er ure drihten come to þisse liue. c1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 58 Þis liues blisse nis wurð a slo. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6123 (MED) Atte laste þis king aildred..wende out of þis lif. c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) 4 It suffreþ in þis lyue &..it shal resceyue in þat oþere. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 229 (MED) Here in þis liif wolden men axe þat a man be found trewe amongis dispensours of an house. c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 219 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 35 Eftire þis lyfe transitore euire-lestand lyfe is me before. 1510 Hours Blessed Virgin 102 This life that is momentaine. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxviii All them, whyche in thys transytory life be in trouble, sorowe, nede..or any other aduersitie. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin vii. 363 King Phillip..had chaunged this life for a better within the towne of Burgos. 1608 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 49 A thirst and inhiation after the next life. 1651 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 300 The which remunerations and recompensations, seeing they are not ever payed in this life,..are to be reserved for the life to come. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Matt. v. 8 They shall see him Spiritually and Mediately in this Life, Gloriously and Immediately in the Life to come. 1751 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) II. xix. 376 This was an effectual confutation of Sadducean notion that there was no life besides the present. 1791 J. Ingraham Jrnl. 16 Sept. (1971) vii. 160 Mr. John Crafts, my second officer..departed this life at four o′clock in the afternoon. 1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 98 Regard this life—as what it is..a pilgrimage to a better. 1893 G. H. Pember Earth's Earliest Ages (ed. 7) 67 How..all our vaunted wisdom in this life is said to be at best but a knowledge in part. 1928 L. Stockett Baltimore viii. 136 Here lived an old woman who dispensed piggies—a most marvelous purple-hued candy of strange composition. Long since she has departed this life and taken her piggies with her. 1954 D. Thomas Quite Early One Morning 178 A failed psychoanalyst in this life who is even now prodnosing in the air above me, casebook in claw. 2001 L. Rennison Knocked out by Nunga-nungas 19 Yeah right, see you in the next life, don't be late. < as lemmas |
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