| 单词 | to be lost on or upon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be lost on or upon b. to be lost on or upon: to have no effect upon, to fail to influence. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail to [verb (transitive)] > have no effect upon to be lost on or upona1616 to cut ice1894 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 190 On whom my paines Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost. View more context for this quotation 1692 Bp. G. Burnet Disc. Pastoral Care ix. 111 Niceties of Style are lost before a common Auditory.] 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 569 Thin Stratagems, and Tricks of little Hearts Are lost on me. 1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) xi. 131 Your kindness is not lost upon me. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. iii. 32 Nothing, however, was ever lost upon Lord Monmouth. No one had a more retentive memory, or a more observant mind. 1900 J. A. H. Murray Evol. Eng. Lexicogr. 6 The real humour of the situation..was..lost upon the House of Commons. < as lemmas |
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