| 单词 | to behold |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto behold a. A thing seen, esp. of a striking or remarkable nature; a spectacle. Sometimes with the addition of the infinitives to behold, to see, with an intensifying force.In early use chiefly of something strange or supernatural. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] i-sightc888 sightc950 regard1586 aspectc1600 observed1604 visiona1616 landscape1659 eyefula1808 visibilia1936 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > sight or spectacle sightc950 showingOE spectacle1434 inspectionc1460 show1536 object1588 eyemark1595 theatre1606 theorya1626 exhibit1676 exhibition1786 something to see (or look at)1808 eyeful1858 spectacular1890 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark ix. 9 [He] bebead ðæm þætte ne ænigum..ða sihðo gesægdon. c1160 Hatton Gosp. Mark xvi. 8 Hyo..wæren aferde for þare sihðe þe hyo geseagen. a1225 Leg. Kath. 1607 Ha awundreden ham swiðe of þat sihðe. c1275 Laȝamon Brut 3897 Þreo daiȝes hit reinede blod... Þat was a wel wonder siht. c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience ii. 911 Swa grysly a sight saw he never nane. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 115 Wherof the Cite sore afflyhte, Of hem that sihen thilke syhte. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 441 The sycht with-out was awfull for to se. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 37 Vnder that water be two dragons that see no sight. 1526 W. Bonde Rosary sig. Diiiv My hert bresteth to se this syght. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. H.iv Whyte teeth is a good sight in a woman. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 433 I saw in Irelands North-parts, two remarkable sights:..The other as goodly sight I saw. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Fable Acis, Polyphemus & Galatea in Examen Poeticum 94 What fouler sight can be Than the bald Branches of a leafless Tree? 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 15 How sad a sight is human Happiness To those whose Thought can pierce beyond an Hour? 1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 147 The earth, and every common sight . View more context for this quotation 1854 D. Brewster More Worlds ii. 17 There is, perhaps, no sight in the material world more magnificent than that of the starry firmament. 1865 Mrs. J. H. Riddell Maxwell Drewitt I. vi. 116 The inn-yards were a sight to behold, crammed full of carriages. 1889 St. G. Mivart Origin Human Reason 53 A name can only be a certain sound, or, if written, a certain sight. < as lemmas |
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