英语词汇“to callous over”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. to callous over: to make (the heart, feelings, etc.) resistant to emotion; to harden, desensitize; to protect or cover up (emotional pain or vulnerability) by becoming unfeeling or callous. Also occasionally intransitive.Sometimes (especially in the form callus) with figurative allusion to callus v., referring to hard-heartedness or lack of sensitivity caused by repeated damage to or strain on the feelings, conscience, etc. Cf. note at callous adj. 2.

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1769 Hist. Amintor & Teresa 84 They learned..to be contented, though not happy; for time had in a manner calloused over the sense of their afflictions into an incapacity of feeling them too sharply.

1783 W. Hutton Hist. Birmingham (ed. 2) 344 What must then be the feelings of a mind, susceptible of impression by nature, but weakly calloused over by art?

1856 M. J. Holmes 'Lena Rivers vi. 65 Way down in the depths of his heart, calloused over as it was by worldly selfishness, there was yet a tender spot.

1947 E. Welty Golden Apples 233 Virgie had often felt herself at some moment callous over, go opaque.

1972 Raleigh (W. Va.) Reg. 7 Dec. 4/2 I know I must care about death and suffering in the real world..because every time I don't, I callous over a corner of my soul.

1998 Telegram & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) 6 Mar. c3 He kind of discovers a humanity that has been pretty much callused over by his experiences and his life.

2012 J. Alvis N. Hawthorne as Polit. Philosopher iv. 177 Dimmesdale's private agonies over his conscience..are supposed to attest his superiority to the sort of mind that could callous over its sin.

单词	to callous over
释义	> as lemmas to callous over 1. transitive. to callous over: to make (the heart, feelings, etc.) resistant to emotion; to harden, desensitize; to protect or cover up (emotional pain or vulnerability) by becoming unfeeling or callous. Also occasionally intransitive.Sometimes (especially in the form callus) with figurative allusion to callus v., referring to hard-heartedness or lack of sensitivity caused by repeated damage to or strain on the feelings, conscience, etc. Cf. note at callous adj. 2. ΚΠ 1769 Hist. Amintor & Teresa 84 They learned..to be contented, though not happy; for time had in a manner calloused over the sense of their afflictions into an incapacity of feeling them too sharply. 1783 W. Hutton Hist. Birmingham (ed. 2) 344 What must then be the feelings of a mind, susceptible of impression by nature, but weakly calloused over by art? 1856 M. J. Holmes 'Lena Rivers vi. 65 Way down in the depths of his heart, calloused over as it was by worldly selfishness, there was yet a tender spot. 1947 E. Welty Golden Apples 233 Virgie had often felt herself at some moment callous over, go opaque. 1972 Raleigh (W. Va.) Reg. 7 Dec. 4/2 I know I must care about death and suffering in the real world..because every time I don't, I callous over a corner of my soul. 1998 Telegram & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) 6 Mar. c3 He kind of discovers a humanity that has been pretty much callused over by his experiences and his life. 2012 J. Alvis N. Hawthorne as Polit. Philosopher iv. 177 Dimmesdale's private agonies over his conscience..are supposed to attest his superiority to the sort of mind that could callous over its sin. extracted from callousv. < as lemmas
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