| 单词 | to look against |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto look against —— to look against —— intransitive. To look at or into (something which impedes vision in some way, esp. by dazzling the eyes). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look at or behold to look to ——eOE showeOE lookeOE lookOE behold971 beseec1000 seeOE to see on ——OE yseeOE yseeOE belookc1175 to look against ——c1225 to lay eyes onc1230 biwaita1250 holde1303 aseea1325 to see upon ——a1350 rewardc1350 to look of ——?c1400 eyea1425 visage1450 aviewa1513 gove1513 regard1523 to look unto ——1545 respect1567 survise1600 aspect1610 reflect1611 inspeculate1694 spectate1709 to look for ——1786 deek1825 lookit1908 lamp1916 eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xxvii. 511 Þu wast þæt þa men þe habbað unhale eagan ne magon full eaðe locian ongean þa sunnan þonne hio beortost scinð.] c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Bodl.) (1981) 581 Swuch leome ant liht leitede þrinne, þet ne mahten ha nawt loki þear aȝeines. a1450 York Plays (1885) 377 (MED) No man on molde was so myghty Grathely to loke agaynste þat light. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. Y.iijv To loke agaynst the sonne: and that is through the vehement splendour and bryghtenes therof: wherby the syghte is distroyed. 1590 Tarltons Newes out of Purgatorie 31 Certaine feathers..which were long and large, of the colour of golde, and were so bright as scarce one could looke against them. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 234 She is too bright to be looked Against. 1699 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick xii. 145 Colours..make a Pressure upon the External Tunick of the Eye..which is very perceptible to those, that look against the Light of the Sun. 1756 J. Bate Enq. Similitudes Lord God 224 To labour for Evasion hurts the Mind, as much as looking against the Sun does the Eyes. 1770 A. Young Six Months Tour N. Eng. III. xvii. 181 To the east, you look against a very fine bank of inclosures, most elegantly scattered with trees. 1826 T. Hood Sea-spell in Whims & Oddities 135 The boatman look'd against the wind. 1894 L. Hearn Glimpses Unfamiliar Japan I. vi. 124 I find myself sometimes looking against the horizon glow for shapes of palms and ceibas. 1920 Hunter Trader Trapper Oct. 117/2 (advt.) Ray filter for looking against sun. 1991 M. C. Gilfillan Moods of Ohio Moons 43 I would roam these wet woods for long days,..looking against the bright sky until severe headache forced me from the woods. < as lemmas |
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