| 单词 | to bear the lantern |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bear the lantern c. Proverbs. †to bear the lantern: to show the way as a leader. ΚΠ a1483 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 283 Of alle the remes in the worlde this beryth the lanterne. 1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes xxx, in Wks. sig. Cciii A Lanthorne and a light mayde: manerly sayde. 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 2 They need not my Commendations, unless I would, according to the Proverb, Shew the Sun with a Lanthorn. 1827 T. Carlyle Note Bk. Jan. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) I. xx. 374 To prove the existence of God, as Paley has attempted to do, is like lighting a lantern to seek for the sun. < as lemmas |
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