单词 | to lose one's eyes |
释义 | > as lemmasto lose one's eyes n. to lose an eye: to lose the sight in one eye; to become blind in one eye. Also similarly † to lose one's eyes [compare Middle French, French perdre les yeux (1517 or earlier)] . ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] to lose an eye?1532 ?1532 Tales & Quicke Answeres lxxxviii. sig. H.ivv One that had sore eies, was warned of the phisitian, that he shulde in any wyse forbeare drinking or els lose his eies. 1598 W. Lisle tr. S. G. de Senlis in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Colonies 64 Hanibal, whom the Poet noteth by the name of Borgne..because he lost an eye by ouer-watching himselfe in the passage of certaine great marrish-grounds into Hetruria. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 24 We cannot behold the least atome in the Sun without danger of loosing an eye. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 260 The Dust..is blown into the Eyes by the Wind, which is the reason that there are many blind in that Country. Whilst I was in Ægypt, a French Merchant lost an Eye so. 1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. xv. 347 He afterwards insinuates, that the Cardinal had lost an eye by the French disease. 1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 300 We..have a friend who lost an eye and blew down a house side. 1909 M. E. Lowndes Nuns of Port Royal v. 97 She nursed Mmme de Soissons through an attack of smallpox, catching the malady and nearly losing an eye. 2004 E. Reid D.B. i. 32 He'd lost an eye in a grease fire and wore a black felt eye patch to cover the curdled orb. < as lemmas |
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