英语词汇“to lift the veil from a person's eyes”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 lift (also remove, take, etc.) the veil from a person's eyes (and variants): to cause a person to understand something more clearly; to awaken someone to the truth; to enlighten a person. Also in similar phrases with fall, drop, etc., as e.g. the veil fell from my eyes.Earliest in religious contexts, with reference to God revealing a spiritual truth.

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1588 J. Morgan Short Anal. 2nd Chapter S. Iames sig. C^v The Lord open your eyes, that you may see this mysterie, & remeue this vaile from your eyes.

1602 F. Trigge True Catholique 288 As Dauid also prayeth: O Lord take awaie the vaile from mine eies, and I shall beholde the wondrous things of thy law.

1798 Dessert to True Amer. 22 Dec. 3/2 I am in no hurry to take off the veil from their eyes.

1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 38 504/2 It is experience which has caused the veil to drop from the eyes of the public.

1842 Dublin Univ. Mag. July 62/2 In an instant the veil was lifted from my eyes: the whole truth burst on me like a lightning flash.

1868 Daily News 16 Sept. 4/2 The same facts which took the veil from the eyes of Lord Salisbury..were there to enlighten him.

1900 Strand Mag. Dec. 617/2 A veil fell from my eyes... I saw the awful thing that I had done.

1949 A. R. Ferris tr. K. Gibran Tears & Laughter (new ed.) 89 Now that the veil has been removed from my eyes and truth is near, I came to follow you to the end of life.

1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Nov. 13 She joined protest marches against Vietnam, read Germaine Greer, and thanked her father for taking the veil from her eyes.

2012 L. Wingate Blue Moon Bay 357 It shouldn't have taken something like this—the prospect of losing my brother—..to lift the veil from my eyes.

单词	to lift the veil from a person's eyes
释义	> as lemmas to lift (also remove, take, etc.) the veil from a person's eyes a. to lift (also remove, take, etc.) the veil from a person's eyes (and variants): to cause a person to understand something more clearly; to awaken someone to the truth; to enlighten a person. Also in similar phrases with fall, drop, etc., as e.g. the veil fell from my eyes.Earliest in religious contexts, with reference to God revealing a spiritual truth. ΚΠ 1588 J. Morgan Short Anal. 2nd Chapter S. Iames sig. C^v The Lord open your eyes, that you may see this mysterie, & remeue this vaile from your eyes. 1602 F. Trigge True Catholique 288 As Dauid also prayeth: O Lord take awaie the vaile from mine eies, and I shall beholde the wondrous things of thy law. 1798 Dessert to True Amer. 22 Dec. 3/2 I am in no hurry to take off the veil from their eyes. 1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 38 504/2 It is experience which has caused the veil to drop from the eyes of the public. 1842 Dublin Univ. Mag. July 62/2 In an instant the veil was lifted from my eyes: the whole truth burst on me like a lightning flash. 1868 Daily News 16 Sept. 4/2 The same facts which took the veil from the eyes of Lord Salisbury..were there to enlighten him. 1900 Strand Mag. Dec. 617/2 A veil fell from my eyes... I saw the awful thing that I had done. 1949 A. R. Ferris tr. K. Gibran Tears & Laughter (new ed.) 89 Now that the veil has been removed from my eyes and truth is near, I came to follow you to the end of life. 1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Nov. 13 She joined protest marches against Vietnam, read Germaine Greer, and thanked her father for taking the veil from her eyes. 2012 L. Wingate Blue Moon Bay 357 It shouldn't have taken something like this—the prospect of losing my brother—..to lift the veil from my eyes. extracted from veiln.¹ < as lemmas
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