英语词汇“to mark with a white stone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. With allusion to the ancient Roman uses of white stones to commemorate auspicious days, events, etc. Originally and chiefly in to mark with a white stone: to mark out or remember as particularly fortunate, auspicious, or happy.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > cause to prosper or flourish [verb (transitive)] > make fortunate > consider (something) fortunate

to mark with a white stone1601

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. xl. 176 The day marked with a white stone [L. iste calculi candore illo laudatus dies], for a good day, had in it the beginning & ouerture of some great misfortune and calamitie.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xii. 23 You are one..whose name I have mark'd with the whitest Stone.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lii. 177 ‘God be praised! a white stone!’..he alluded to the Dies fasti of the Romans, albo lapide notati.

1851 C. Brontë Let. 2 June (2000) II. 628 Sunday—yesterday—was a day to be marked with a white stone—through most of the day I was very happy without being tired or over-excited.

1885 W. T. Hornaday Two Years in Jungle xxvii. 318 I have marked that day with a white stone as being the one on which I ate my first durian.

1952 D. M. Jones Anathemata v. 162 At every rounded apse-end where the flamens plead his death who is Best and Greatest on the mind-days when we mark with the white stone.

2009 Agence France Presse (Nexis) 2 Apr. This day today should be marked with a white stone in the history of Madagascar.

单词	to mark with a white stone
释义	> as lemmas to mark with a white stone 2. With allusion to the ancient Roman uses of white stones to commemorate auspicious days, events, etc. Originally and chiefly in to mark with a white stone: to mark out or remember as particularly fortunate, auspicious, or happy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > cause to prosper or flourish [verb (transitive)] > make fortunate > consider (something) fortunate to mark with a white stone1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. xl. 176 The day marked with a white stone [L. iste calculi candore illo laudatus dies], for a good day, had in it the beginning & ouerture of some great misfortune and calamitie. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xii. 23 You are one..whose name I have mark'd with the whitest Stone. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lii. 177 ‘God be praised! a white stone!’..he alluded to the Dies fasti of the Romans, albo lapide notati. 1851 C. Brontë Let. 2 June (2000) II. 628 Sunday—yesterday—was a day to be marked with a white stone—through most of the day I was very happy without being tired or over-excited. 1885 W. T. Hornaday Two Years in Jungle xxvii. 318 I have marked that day with a white stone as being the one on which I ate my first durian. 1952 D. M. Jones Anathemata v. 162 At every rounded apse-end where the flamens plead his death who is Best and Greatest on the mind-days when we mark with the white stone. 2009 Agence France Presse (Nexis) 2 Apr. This day today should be marked with a white stone in the history of Madagascar. extracted from white stonen.adj. < as lemmas
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