英语词汇“to cut a gordian knot”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. figurative or allusively: (a) A matter of extreme difficulty. to cut a Gordian knot: to get rid of a difficulty by force or by evading the supposed conditions of solution. (b) An indissoluble bond. †Also Gordian-twined knot.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult problem

knotc1000

a bone to pick (also gnaw)c1450

dark, hard sentence1535

nut1540

Gordian knot1579

nodus1728

teaser1759

stumper1807

Chinese puzzlec1815

facer1828

sticker1849

grueller1856

stumbler1863

twister1879

the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which connects or bond > an indissoluble bond

Gordian knot1579

(a)

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 396 Hee had found out a sworde to cutt in sunder this Gordian knot.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 47 Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy, The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 72 Death will find some ways to unty or cut the most Gordian Knots of Life.

1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 84 His Sword would have cut the Gordian Knot of hereditary Right.

1791 J. Bentham Panopticon Pref. The Gordian knot of the Poor Laws not cut but untied.

1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxxii. 309 By no other possible means could the Gordian knot be cut.

(b)a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Dii This Gordion knot together co-unites A Medor partner in her peerlesse loue.1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 61 in Purple Island Strange power of home, with how strong-twisted arms And Gordian-twined knot dost thou enchain me!1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ii. 19 Perhaps too much difficulty of untying the Gordian knot of matrimony..would be no kindness to the ladies.1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lxxiv. 101 The Gordian or the Geordi-an knot, whose strings Have tied together Commons, Lords, and Kings.

单词	to cut a gordian knot
释义	> as lemmas to cut a Gordian knot c. figurative or allusively: (a) A matter of extreme difficulty. to cut a Gordian knot: to get rid of a difficulty by force or by evading the supposed conditions of solution. (b) An indissoluble bond. †Also Gordian-twined knot. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult problem knotc1000 a bone to pick (also gnaw)c1450 dark, hard sentence1535 nut1540 Gordian knot1579 nodus1728 teaser1759 stumper1807 Chinese puzzlec1815 facer1828 sticker1849 grueller1856 stumbler1863 twister1879 the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which connects or bond > an indissoluble bond Gordian knot1579 (a) 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 396 Hee had found out a sworde to cutt in sunder this Gordian knot. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 47 Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy, The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose. View more context for this quotation a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 72 Death will find some ways to unty or cut the most Gordian Knots of Life. 1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 84 His Sword would have cut the Gordian Knot of hereditary Right. 1791 J. Bentham Panopticon Pref. The Gordian knot of the Poor Laws not cut but untied. 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxxii. 309 By no other possible means could the Gordian knot be cut. (b)a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Dii This Gordion knot together co-unites A Medor partner in her peerlesse loue.1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 61 in Purple Island Strange power of home, with how strong-twisted arms And Gordian-twined knot dost thou enchain me!1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ii. 19 Perhaps too much difficulty of untying the Gordian knot of matrimony..would be no kindness to the ladies.1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lxxiv. 101 The Gordian or the Geordi-an knot, whose strings Have tied together Commons, Lords, and Kings. extracted from Gordianadj.n. < as lemmas
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