| 单词 | to have two faces in a hood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have two faces in a hood (a) to have (also †wear) two faces and variants: (originally) to be guilty of duplicity, or (of speech, etc.) to be ambiguous; (now also) to have two aspects or characters (without implication of duplicity). Formerly also (in same sense) †to have two faces in a hood, †to bear (also carry) two faces under one hood. Cf. two-faced adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > act evasively [verb (intransitive)] > practise double-dealing double1530 to play on (also with) both hands1530 to run with hare and hounds1573 to have (also wear) two faces1889 c1460 in R. Brotanek Mittelengl. Dichtungen MS 432 Trin. Coll. Dublin (1940) 128 (MED) Two fases in a hode is neuer to tryst. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. B.ii Thou beryst two faces in one whood. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 289 Icetes had caried two faces in one hoode, and..was become a traytor. 1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London ii. sig. C3v Frawd (with two faces) is his Daughter. 1732 Compl. Coll. Rep., Lyes, & Stories ii. 53 A Protestant Mask under two Faces. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xl. 166 You are a specious fellow..and carry two faces under your hood. 1862 Q. Rev. Apr. 442 The whole system of the Church of England..has, like all Truth, two faces: one silver, the other gold. 1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xx. 196 Persons whose speech had two faces. 1973 Sci. Amer. Sept. 123/3 Psychiatry..has two faces, one represented by treatment at the psychosocial level and the other by treatment at the pharmacologic level. 2001 D. J. Whittaker Terrorism Reader (2002) xii. 166 Colombia..is often described as having two faces—the ‘formal’ Columbia,..and the ‘informal’ Colombia, a ‘real’ and very different polity. < as lemmas |
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