英语词汇“to build a better mousetrap”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

e. to build a better mousetrap and variants: to make a significant improvement to something that is simple and widespread (with allusion to quot. 1882).An almost identical version of the saying in quot. 1882 is similarly attributed to R. W. Emerson in a source of 1889; see Oxf. Dict. Quotations (ed. 5, 1999).

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1882 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 11 May 4 Current Comment. The Value of Good Work, Ralph Waldo Emerson. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.]

1934 N.Y. Times 5 July 22/2 How did the Bambino [sc. Babe Ruth] become practically a world figure? By building better mousetraps?

1938 J. Dana Sutter of Calif. xli. 332 All the world seemed to be beating a path to John Sutter's door. Which proves a gold mine as potent a lure as a better mousetrap.

1949 Capitol News from Hollywood Jan. 2/2 There will be vast and radical changes in records this year and as with all things new and novel, there are those who already are resisting the inevitable—and traditional—American urge to create a better mousetrap.

1971 ‘A. Landers’ in San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chron. 28 Mar. 9/2 The woman who is constantly checking on her man will not make him more honest, she will simply make him more inventive. It's a fact of life that when woman builds a better mousetrap, nature breeds a better mouse.

1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 July 3/4 Ingenuity was not spent on building a better mousetrap but on inventing goldener parachutes.

2001 Amer. Rifleman Feb. 76/2 Gunwriters often claimed that shooters would beat a path away from belted cases and to the ‘better mousetrap’ of a beltless magnum.

单词	to build a better mousetrap
释义	> as lemmas to build a better mousetrap e. to build a better mousetrap and variants: to make a significant improvement to something that is simple and widespread (with allusion to quot. 1882).An almost identical version of the saying in quot. 1882 is similarly attributed to R. W. Emerson in a source of 1889; see Oxf. Dict. Quotations (ed. 5, 1999). ΚΠ 1882 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 11 May 4 Current Comment. The Value of Good Work, Ralph Waldo Emerson. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.] 1934 N.Y. Times 5 July 22/2 How did the Bambino [sc. Babe Ruth] become practically a world figure? By building better mousetraps? 1938 J. Dana Sutter of Calif. xli. 332 All the world seemed to be beating a path to John Sutter's door. Which proves a gold mine as potent a lure as a better mousetrap. 1949 Capitol News from Hollywood Jan. 2/2 There will be vast and radical changes in records this year and as with all things new and novel, there are those who already are resisting the inevitable—and traditional—American urge to create a better mousetrap. 1971 ‘A. Landers’ in San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chron. 28 Mar. 9/2 The woman who is constantly checking on her man will not make him more honest, she will simply make him more inventive. It's a fact of life that when woman builds a better mousetrap, nature breeds a better mouse. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 July 3/4 Ingenuity was not spent on building a better mousetrap but on inventing goldener parachutes. 2001 Amer. Rifleman Feb. 76/2 Gunwriters often claimed that shooters would beat a path away from belted cases and to the ‘better mousetrap’ of a beltless magnum. extracted from mousetrapn. < as lemmas
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