英语词汇“to make a mountain of a molehill”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to make a mountain (out) of a molehill: to attribute great importance to something, esp. a difficulty or grievance, which is insignificant in reality; to make a lot of fuss over a minor matter. Also in other phrases with opposition to mountain.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > judge wrongly [verb (intransitive)] > overestimate or overstate

overween1554

to make a mountain (out) of a molehill1570

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1361/1 To much amplifying thinges y^t be but small, makyng mountaines of Molehils.

1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 237 (margin) To whome you are as much comparable as a mole hill to a mountaine.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd 282 Thou promisest mountaines, but performest Mole~hils.

1682 S. Pordage Azaria & Hushai 34 Each Mole-hill they a Mountain did create.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. vi. 36 Thou can'st make a Mole-hill appear as a Mountain; a Jew's-Harp sound like a Trumpet.

1778 T. Hutchinson Diary 5 May (1886) ii. 203 I told him his nerves were affected: every mole-hill was a mountain.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. x. x. 738 Of the mountain of their nonsense, the..magnitude may be measured by the molehill dimensions of..their..sense.

1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 2) 53 [This is] like making mountains out of molehills.

1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down 32 With one bound he had leapt clear of the tradition of his class and type, which was to see molehills as mountains.

1992 D. Pannick Advocates i. 5 Counsel must..follow and defend the great tradition of advocacy: to make mountains out of molehills, to find a point of law where none had previously been known to exist.

单词	to make a mountain of a molehill
释义	> as lemmas to make a mountain (out) of a molehill a. to make a mountain (out) of a molehill: to attribute great importance to something, esp. a difficulty or grievance, which is insignificant in reality; to make a lot of fuss over a minor matter. Also in other phrases with opposition to mountain. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > judge wrongly [verb (intransitive)] > overestimate or overstate overween1554 to make a mountain (out) of a molehill1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1361/1 To much amplifying thinges y^t be but small, makyng mountaines of Molehils. 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 237 (margin) To whome you are as much comparable as a mole hill to a mountaine. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd 282 Thou promisest mountaines, but performest Mole~hils. 1682 S. Pordage Azaria & Hushai 34 Each Mole-hill they a Mountain did create. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. vi. 36 Thou can'st make a Mole-hill appear as a Mountain; a Jew's-Harp sound like a Trumpet. View more context for this quotation 1778 T. Hutchinson Diary 5 May (1886) ii. 203 I told him his nerves were affected: every mole-hill was a mountain. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. x. x. 738 Of the mountain of their nonsense, the..magnitude may be measured by the molehill dimensions of..their..sense. 1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 2) 53 [This is] like making mountains out of molehills. 1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down 32 With one bound he had leapt clear of the tradition of his class and type, which was to see molehills as mountains. 1992 D. Pannick Advocates i. 5 Counsel must..follow and defend the great tradition of advocacy: to make mountains out of molehills, to find a point of law where none had previously been known to exist. extracted from molehilln. < as lemmas
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