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单词 to break the mould
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to break the mould
c. to break the mould and variants: to make impossible the repetition of a certain type of creation; (in extended use, with some loss of the original force of the metaphor): to destroy or break free from an established pattern; to be different or original; to approach something from a fresh angle. [With early uses compare Italian Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa ‘Nature made him and then broke the mould’, in Ariosto Orlando Furioso (1532) x. 84.]
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to break the mould1566
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xliv. f. 211v I think dame nature her self hath broken the moulde.
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso (1607) x. lxx. 78 The goodly impe whom nature made, To shew her chiefest workmanship and skill, And after brake the mould.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 8 And thou all shaking thunder,..cracke natures Mold. View more context for this quotation
1661 A. Wright in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1872) III. Ps. lix. 8 There is a counsel in heaven, that will dash the mould of all contrary counsels upon the earth.
1786 J. Burgoyne Heiress i. ii. 21 He cannot mistake her, for when she was form'd nature broke the mould.
1847 R. W. Emerson Monadnoc in Wks (Bohn) I. 434 But if the brave old mould is broke, And end in churls the mountain folk.
1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. i. 27 The mould in which they were made is broken.
1933 S. Barker Dark Hills Under 36 How rarely do we break the mold of life, How little can we reach our hand to change!
1965 A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 269 Lloyd George needed a new crisis to break the mould of political and economic habit.
1986 R. Sproat Stunning the Punters 127 After they made me, they broke the mould.
2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xxii. 544 A few have broken the mould, such as the pygmy parakeets, which nest in termite mounds.
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