| 单词 | to hold the ring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hold the ring c. to keep the ring: †(a) to keep order among spectators gathered round to watch a fight or performance, to keep spectators at a required distance (obsolete); (b) (also to hold the ring) to be a spectator at a fight; to stand by while others quarrel; chiefly figurative; (c) (also to hold the ring) to continue victorious or hold one's own in a series of fights; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look on or spectate to look onOE to look upona1470 to keep the ring1798 to play the gallery1870 spectate1929 1798 R. Cumberland tr. Aristophanes Clouds in Comedies of Aristophanes 59 We have no old man Arm'd with a staff to practise manual jokes On the by- standers' ribs, and keep the ring For them who dance the chorus. 1828 Sporting Mag. Oct. 448/1 Eight pugilists were engaged specially to keep the ring, and everything went off as it should do. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 678 At least 500 Irishmen, armed à la shilelah, kept the ring. 1850 N. Brit. Rev. 13 278 The Parliament House probably never saw—and may never see again—such a brotherhood of legal talent as the Whig lawyers of 1815; Clerk , Clanstoun, Jeffrey, Moncreiff, Cockburn, Fullerton, formed a phalanx, who for years kept the ring against all comers, and neither feared nor found competitors. 1853 M. Parkyns Life in Abyssinia I. xix. 236 I travelled with them for some days,acting as his assistant, my duty being to keep the ring, which I did by gracefully swinging round me two wooden balls covered with red cloth. 1858 Q. Rev. July 17 During the civil war they fell under the ‘Presbyterian model’,..yet were never fermented with the general passions of the mob. They ‘kept the ring’, to borrow an illustration from the pugilists. 1905 Spectator 21 Jan. 79/1 There is a cynicism which nothing but conscious impotence could excuse in the thought of ‘keeping a ring’ while the Bulgarians of the Principality..are drawn into a life-and-death struggle with the Turks. 1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) iii. xv. 166 There are still many people who hold that the State ought not to meddle with industry,..but should confine itself to holding the ring while the disputants fight out their differences. 1957 P. S. Florence Ind. & State iv. 69 Gradually, the Company Acts advanced from the role of keeping the ring between independent traders and guarding mainly against fraud, towards the role of defending..one party within an industrial organization from another. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 400/1 Its [sc. Government's] task in the economic field is to hold the ring between the many popular pressures, frequently irreconcilable, which assert themselves. 2008 A. Hawkins Forgotten Prime Minister II. vii. 411 Derby hoped to hold the ring against Ultra Tory and radical extremes and resurrect the Canningite project. to hold the ring c. to keep the ring: †(a) to keep order among spectators gathered round to watch a fight or performance, to keep spectators at a required distance (obsolete); (b) (also to hold the ring) to be a spectator at a fight; to stand by while others quarrel; chiefly figurative; (c) (also to hold the ring) to continue victorious or hold one's own in a series of fights; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look on or spectate to look onOE to look upona1470 to keep the ring1798 to play the gallery1870 spectate1929 1798 R. Cumberland tr. Aristophanes Clouds in Comedies of Aristophanes 59 We have no old man Arm'd with a staff to practise manual jokes On the by- standers' ribs, and keep the ring For them who dance the chorus. 1828 Sporting Mag. Oct. 448/1 Eight pugilists were engaged specially to keep the ring, and everything went off as it should do. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 678 At least 500 Irishmen, armed à la shilelah, kept the ring. 1850 N. Brit. Rev. 13 278 The Parliament House probably never saw—and may never see again—such a brotherhood of legal talent as the Whig lawyers of 1815; Clerk , Clanstoun, Jeffrey, Moncreiff, Cockburn, Fullerton, formed a phalanx, who for years kept the ring against all comers, and neither feared nor found competitors. 1853 M. Parkyns Life in Abyssinia I. xix. 236 I travelled with them for some days,acting as his assistant, my duty being to keep the ring, which I did by gracefully swinging round me two wooden balls covered with red cloth. 1858 Q. Rev. July 17 During the civil war they fell under the ‘Presbyterian model’,..yet were never fermented with the general passions of the mob. They ‘kept the ring’, to borrow an illustration from the pugilists. 1905 Spectator 21 Jan. 79/1 There is a cynicism which nothing but conscious impotence could excuse in the thought of ‘keeping a ring’ while the Bulgarians of the Principality..are drawn into a life-and-death struggle with the Turks. 1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) iii. xv. 166 There are still many people who hold that the State ought not to meddle with industry,..but should confine itself to holding the ring while the disputants fight out their differences. 1957 P. S. Florence Ind. & State iv. 69 Gradually, the Company Acts advanced from the role of keeping the ring between independent traders and guarding mainly against fraud, towards the role of defending..one party within an industrial organization from another. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 400/1 Its [sc. Government's] task in the economic field is to hold the ring between the many popular pressures, frequently irreconcilable, which assert themselves. 2008 A. Hawkins Forgotten Prime Minister II. vii. 411 Derby hoped to hold the ring against Ultra Tory and radical extremes and resurrect the Canningite project. < as lemmas |
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