| 单词 | to meet a person's eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto meet a person's eye (also gaze, etc.) a. transitive. to meet a person's eye (also gaze, etc.): to see that a person is looking at one; (also) to reciprocate a person's look without turning away. ΚΠ 1636 King & Queenes Entertainement Richmond 26 Why should you feare their eyes to meet? You haue a sure defence. 1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love v. i. 48 So much of guilt in my refusal lyes, That Debtor-like, I dare not meet your eyes. 1769 C. Lennox Sister i. ii. 7 You cannot meet the steady gaze with the confident stare. 1799 S. W. Morton Virtues of Society 22 The careless band, Meet her soft glance, and hear her fond demand. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 74 I..Not yet endured to meet her opening eyes. 1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xxxii As she turned her head..she met his eyes. 1963 E. Wilson Jrnl. 25 July in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 229 He looks like the perfect ideal of the fighting Slavic revolutionist,..square-chinned, meeting one's gaze with defiance. 1985 L. McMurtry Lonesome Dove (1986) xx. 191 He looked out the window and wouldn't meet her eye. < as lemmas |
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