英语词汇“to hand on the torch”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. figurative or allusively. Something figured as a source of illumination, enlightenment, or guidance, or of heat or ‘conflagration’. Also in phrases: to hand (pass, etc.) on the torch (and variants), to pass on a tradition, etc., esp. one of enlightenment (after Latin lampada tradere, Greek λαμπάδα παραδιδόναι, a metaphor from the ancient Greek torch-race; cf. lamp n.¹ 1c and see Compounds below); to carry (etc.) a torch for (someone), to feel (esp. unrequited) love for, to feel lingering affection for.

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the world > movement > transference > [verb (intransitive)] > be transmitted or passed on > pass on a tradition, etc.

to hand (pass, etc.) on the torch1887

a1640 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (1651) iii. ii. v. i. 545 I light my Candle from their Torches.

1664 P. P. Jasz-Berenyi (title) A new Torch to the Latine Tongue.

1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals Epil. The torch of love.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 19 The torch of Greek learning and civilisation was to be extinguished.

1887 Q. Rev. Oct. 276 Her [sc. Italy's] work has been done among the nations, and in their turn France, England and Germany hand on the torch.

1912 E. Gosse Portr. & Sketches p. viii They were all..engaged in keeping bright, and in handing on unquenched, the torch of literary tradition.

1927 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 132/3 When a fellow ‘carries the torch’ it doesn't imply that he is ‘lit up’ or drunk, but girl-less. His steady has quit him for another or he is lonesome for her.

1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. i. xi. 189 He had sometimes hoped that in Max a son was born to him who would take the torch from his dying hand and jump on to the platform he had vacated.

1953 L. Z. Hobson Celebrity vi. 78 Jim's still carrying a torch for Roosevelt.

1959 Manch. Guardian 16 June 5/2 She was carrying a torch for someone.

1969 J. Gross Rise & Fall Man of Lett. iv. 104 Dante was the poet of Catholicism, who handed over the torch to Shakespeare, the poet of Feudalism, who passed it on to Milton, the poet of Protestantism.

1977 H. Fast Immigrants v. 305 Maybe you got a torch for her, maybe not. But we both got her interest at heart.

单词	to hand on the torch
释义	> as lemmas to hand (pass, etc.) on the torch b. figurative or allusively. Something figured as a source of illumination, enlightenment, or guidance, or of heat or ‘conflagration’. Also in phrases: to hand (pass, etc.) on the torch (and variants), to pass on a tradition, etc., esp. one of enlightenment (after Latin lampada tradere, Greek λαμπάδα παραδιδόναι, a metaphor from the ancient Greek torch-race; cf. lamp n.¹ 1c and see Compounds below); to carry (etc.) a torch for (someone), to feel (esp. unrequited) love for, to feel lingering affection for. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (intransitive)] > be transmitted or passed on > pass on a tradition, etc. to hand (pass, etc.) on the torch1887 a1640 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (1651) iii. ii. v. i. 545 I light my Candle from their Torches. 1664 P. P. Jasz-Berenyi (title) A new Torch to the Latine Tongue. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals Epil. The torch of love. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 19 The torch of Greek learning and civilisation was to be extinguished. 1887 Q. Rev. Oct. 276 Her [sc. Italy's] work has been done among the nations, and in their turn France, England and Germany hand on the torch. 1912 E. Gosse Portr. & Sketches p. viii They were all..engaged in keeping bright, and in handing on unquenched, the torch of literary tradition. 1927 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 132/3 When a fellow ‘carries the torch’ it doesn't imply that he is ‘lit up’ or drunk, but girl-less. His steady has quit him for another or he is lonesome for her. 1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. i. xi. 189 He had sometimes hoped that in Max a son was born to him who would take the torch from his dying hand and jump on to the platform he had vacated. 1953 L. Z. Hobson Celebrity vi. 78 Jim's still carrying a torch for Roosevelt. 1959 Manch. Guardian 16 June 5/2 She was carrying a torch for someone. 1969 J. Gross Rise & Fall Man of Lett. iv. 104 Dante was the poet of Catholicism, who handed over the torch to Shakespeare, the poet of Feudalism, who passed it on to Milton, the poet of Protestantism. 1977 H. Fast Immigrants v. 305 Maybe you got a torch for her, maybe not. But we both got her interest at heart. extracted from torchn. < as lemmas
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