| 单词 | to look black |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto look black Phrases P1. In similative and comparative phrases.For more established phrases, as (as) black as coal, one's hat, night, pitch, etc., see the nouns. ΚΠ c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 24 Muche deale blackre þen eauer eani blamon. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 2904 A Paire of Bedes blak as Sable Sche tok and heng my necke aboute. c1400 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Tiber.) i. xlix, in R. Morris & W. W. Skeat Specim. Early Eng. (1884) II. 236 A ys blak as gemmes buþ. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xviii. sig. Ciii [The water] was blacker than smythy water. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 4 But as the hearbe Moly hath a floure as white as snow, and a roote as black as inck. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 358 With drooping fogge as blacke as Acheron. View more context for this quotation 1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 166 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. He is not as black as Velvet, as the Whale is, but like a Tench. 1752 G. A. Stevens Distress upon Distress ii. 88 Now grizly Night, thy pitch'd Tarpaulin spread, Black as the sooty Chimney-sweeper's Sack. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 188 Its skin is blacker than that of an Otter..; ‘as black as a Mink’ being a proverbial expression in America. 1886 Cent. Mag. Feb. 522/1 Tall, well-knit Senegalese from Cape Verde, black as ebony, with intelligent, kindly eyes and long, straight, shapely noses. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 52/2 There one sees pale girls, with fevered eyes as black as a raven's wing. 1974 D. Goines Swamp Man xii. 170 It's goin' be blacker than a witch's heart in a few more minutes. 2005 S. Saadi Psychoraag 168 The foetid, poundin rhythm, black as fishes' bowels, that emerged from lakes deep within the jungle ki kokh of Madya Pradesh. P2. a. black and blae: = black and blue at Phrases 2b. Now Scottish and English regional (northern). ΚΠ a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 199 (MED) Blody stremes ronne þe fro þat þi bodi wes blak ant blo. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8073 Four sarȝins..Blac and bla [Trin. Cambr. blak and blo] als led þai war. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxii. 275 Bett hym blak and bloo. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Beaten blacke and bloo, suggilatus. 1718 A. Ramsay Lucky Spence's Last Advice 3 That curst Correction-house, where aft Vild Hangy's Taz ye'r Riggins saft makes black and blae. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 72 Aft hae made us black and blae. 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) 88 Sad wights! wi' ribs baith black and blae Were harlit hame. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. 48 He's getten his bats: his feeace's black and bleea wi't. 1903 G. Cunningham Verse & Prose i. 20 A'bruised and bluidy, black and blae. 2003 E. R. Anderson Folk-Taxon. in Early Eng. v. 173 The Northern dialect form, black and blae, preserves the Norse loanword. b. black and blue: (of the human body) discoloured by bruises caused by beating, pinching, etc. Frequently in to beat (a person) black and blue. Also occasionally as n.: such bruising or beating. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > bruised bruiseda1400 surbateda1425 pounced?a1563 black and blue1568 squat1600 mauled1690 mourning1709 contused1761 stubbed1890 stone-bruised1909 the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1568 T. Hill Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) ii. xviii. f. 76v Ye black & blew of a striepe. 1593 G. Peele Famous Chron. King Edward the First sig. F3 My pate adle, mine armes blacke and blue. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 141 He basted our shoulders with Cudgell-deaw, making the dust flie out of our Coates, till he had beaten our bodies all blacke and blue. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 143 Flew To rescue Knight from black and blew. 1690 London Gaz. No. 2577/4 His right Eye black and blue with a Blow. 1718 29th May, or, Restoration 14 [He] hit him also against the Pommel of a Chair, whereby His Majesty's Eye is black and blue. 1833 T. Hood Happy New Year in Comic Ann. 86 He's come home black and blue from the cane. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi iii. 61 Some raftsmen would rawhide you until you were black and blue! 1904 Dietetic & Hygienic Gaz. Aug. 473/2 It would more quickly remove the black and blue of bruises and contusions than any other remedy. 1929 Travel Jan. 13/1 If I return home empty-handed, my wife will beat me black and blue. 1990 D. Bolger Journey Home (1991) i. 20 You know, twice he caught me and leathered me black and blue. P3. to say black is a person's eye (also eyebrow, nail, etc.): to find fault with or blame a person. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [verb (intransitive)] to say black is a person's eye (also eyebrow, nail, etc.)a1450 remord1522 tax1589 finger-point1959 a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 2823 (MED) The riche and myghty man, thogh he trespace, No man seith ones þat blak is his eye. 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. eiiijv They eate their belies full, Every man as moche as he wull, And none sayth blacke is his eye? 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 36 If you were my chaplains once, I trowe John Whitgift..durst not once say blacke to your eies. 1675 T. Brooks Golden Key 362 He knew that the Law could not say, black was his eye, and that the Judge upon the Bench, would pronounce him righteous. ?1720 Vade Mecum for Malt-worms 11 None can say that black's his eyebrow to him. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. iv. 337 I defy any Body to say black is my Eye . View more context for this quotation 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) at Nail ‘Thou cannot say black's my nail’..Cui tu nihil dicas vitii. Ter. 1879 E. Waugh Chimney Corner 61 I kept a shop, an' was well-to-do; an' I had frinds high an' low, an' was respected; an' divul a one could say ‘black's your nail’ to me. 1934 P. O'Donnell On Edge of Stream 191 I'd like meself to..have the pleasure of knocking down the man who'd say black was the white of his eye. P4. black in the face: purple in the face through strangulation, passion, or exertion. Frequently used hyperbolically. Cf. blue in the face at blue adj. and n. Phrases 4. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > [phrase] > by violent effort black in the face1607 1607 E. Grimeston tr. S. Goulart Admirable & Memorable Hist. 2 She was so opprest with paine, as she grewe blacke in the Face, like one that had beene strangled. 1646 H. Mill 2nd Pt. Nights Search xix. 117 Spits ill language at the Moon, and looks Black in the face with pride. 1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. i. 25 He would swear till he was black in the Face; Dissemble six long hours by the Clock. 1717 T. Lewis Scourge 30 Sept. 292 The Embroider'd Bully upon the Stage you obseve amusing the Gaping Croud with Folly, Nonsense, and Noise, bawling till he is Black in the Face. 1789 J. Wolcot Poet. Epist. to falling Minister 121 Swore himself black..in the face. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) v. 47 Mr. Winkle pulled..till he was black in the face. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 67 Though we should boast..till we were black in the face. 1920 G. B. McCutcheon West Wind Drift vi. 76 He might apologize until he was black in the face and still be unable to take back the words he had uttered. 1991 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 15 Feb. The peacemongers can meet and march until they are black in the face. P5. to look black: a. to frown, to look angrily or threateningly (at, on, or upon a person). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > show anger [verb (intransitive)] > look angry starea1275 grima1400 to look black1608 to speak or look daggers1834 1608 H. Clapham Errour Left Hand 58 The heauens looke black vpon thee. The aire drawes it selfe from thee. The earth trembles at the waight of such a Reprobate. 1699 J. Barry Reviving Cordial iv. 75 The very Face of Providence shall seem to Frown and look black on thee. 1790 M. Wollstonecraft tr. C. G. Salzmann Elem. Morality I. xiv. 104 I have offended my parents, and the strangers looked black on me. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. vi. 120 My brother-in-law..looked rather black upon me. View more context for this quotation 1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 42 The monks looked black. 1881 Boys' & Girls' Bk. Story & Tale 45 Mr. Green looked very black at Mr. Brown; but soon Mr. Brown, as well as Mr. Green, looked very black at their master. 1917 W. Riley Way of Winepress xxi. 173 Am I to be sworn at and looked black at because I give an order? a1974 R. Roberts Ragged Schooling (1997) xviii. 198 ‘We'll have to strip the bleedin' thing down.’ He looked black at me. 2005 J. Neel Ticket to Ride vii. 106 Paul was looking black and she did not dare ignore him any longer. b. (of a situation, position, etc.) to appear unpromising or threatening; frequently with it.Quot. 1709 may be interpreted as a figurative use of sense Phrases 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] > specifically of aspect, etc. louringa1450 ominousa1593 loury1686 to look black1709 squally1814 thundery1824 thunderous1844 1709 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels IV. 190 When the Face of affairs looked blackest and no glimpse of Comfort appeared. 1845 Anglo-Amer. (N.Y.) 16 Aug. 404/2 At the next ball,..Wisden touched into Dorrinton's hands, and went out—2 wickets for 7 runs. Things looked black for Sussex. 1865 J. Skelton Campaigner at Home xiii. 335 It looked very black for Nancy, for she could not swim. 1894 Outing May 100/2 He protested he was as innocent as Line's seven-toed cat, but things looked black for him. 1908 Western Law Reporter (Toronto) 8 680 The case looked black for the prisoner, it ‘looked black enough to those who knew the law’. 1920 Asia Aug. 728/2 It looked black for the newborn peace of Transcaucasia,..and black indeed for the Armenians. 1947 J. Williamson With Folded Hands in Astounding Sci. Fiction July 8/2 Out of his startled and confused impressions, one clear fact emerged—things looked black for the agency. 1958 N. Fleischer 50 Years at Ringside i. iv. 22 The boxing game was being threatened by certain disgruntled politicians and blue law agitators, and things looked black for the sport. 1981 Times 11 Nov. 20/1 Andy King put West Bromwich two up and things looked black for West Ham. 2009 H. Baumgarten in M. Green & J. D. Brown War Stories of D-Day 157 The water reached my waist, and things looked black for us as our little boat began to sink. P6. colloquial (now offensive). to work like a black: to work very hard. Cf. to work like a nigger at nigger n. and adj. Phrases 1. ΚΠ 1842 Northern Star (Leeds) 4 June 8/1 I have worked like a black to-day, and yet I am as fresh as a four-year old. 1870 E. S. Maine Among Strangers xiii. 107 ‘I can work like a black, Miss Beckett, when I have anything to work for,’ said Evan, proudly. 1928 H. Graham World's Workers 18 While his workmen toil like blacks, St. Bees evades the Super-Tax. 1957 Punch 19 June 775/3 He worked like a black (if that phrase is still permissible) to produce a guide to French literature. 1987 P. Thomas Welsher ii. i. 58 Bridie is as quiet as the proverbial church mouse and works like a black into the bargain! 2005 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 13 July 6 I have to say I was pretty disgusted when I heard him say: ‘I didn't come here to work like a black.’ Did he think he was being funny? P7. to fade (also go) to black and variants. a. Of stage lighting: to go out gradually, leaving the stage in darkness. Hence (of a film or television screen): to go gradually dark. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1918 R. H. McLaughlin Eternal Magdalene iii. 87 (stage direct.) Lights fade to black. 1969 P. M. Jensen Cinema Fritz Lang vi. 167 A man's figure materialises out of the haze and the screen fades to black. 1988 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 18 Jan. The screen goes to black as the ‘snap’ of the trap springing shut is heard. 1992 L. Kramer in S. P. Scher Music & Text viii. 144 After the opening forte attack, the Urklang gradually fades to black. 1997 Amer. Theatre July 21 The light brightens and brightens, and then the music ends. The lights fade to black. 2006 UMass Amherst Fall 51 He opposes those who argue that the city [of New Orleans], because of its geography, should simply fade to black. b. To cause stage lighting to go out gradually; to cause a film or television screen to go dark. Frequently in imperative. ΚΠ 1947 B. Emery Singapore Spider in L. A. Sposa Television Primer of Production & Direct. 144 Thanks for looking and [Good night!] fade to black. 1960 Punch 5 Oct. 491/2 Roll final credits and fade to black. 1988 S. Gray How's that for telling 'em, Fat Lady? ii. 65 We'll go down to black while the rest of the furniture is struck or replaced—in fact, a conventional set change requiring a lengthy pause. 2011 P. Meehan Horror Noir viii. 182 The final shot shows Marion's car..being dragged out of the mucky bog. Fade to black. P8. Originally U.S. in the black [from the practice of recording credit items and balances in a ledger in black ink] : in profit; having a credit balance. Cf. in the red at red n. 16. ΚΠ 1923 Wall St. Jrnl. 2 Feb. 13 Carter, Macy is now making satisfactory profits. Amsinck is operating in the black. 1940 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 44 734 With but few exceptions American air carriers are..operating ‘in the black’. 1990 Independent on Sunday 11 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 33/4 A guarantee that I will receive other payments within a fortnight that will put me £600 in the black. 2006 R. Ash New Spend Less Revol. iii. iv. 80 You could even consider a part-time job for a short while to get you back in the black and feeling rich again. P9. black is beautiful: a slogan, popularized in the 1960s, which affirms the beauty and value of being black, esp. black ethnicity and culture. Frequently attributive.The slogan is sometimes said to have been coined by John S. Rock in 1858 ( Liberator 12 Mar.). Rock's speech promotes the idea that blackness should be celebrated, but does not use the slogan itself. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [adjective] > pride in blackness and black self-awareness black is beautiful1964 society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [phrase] > slogan asserting pride in blackness black is beautiful1964 1927 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 8 Dec. 3/3 Marcus Garvey made black people proud of their race. In a world where black is despised he taught them that black is beautiful.] 1964 N.Y. Amsterdam News 23 May 10/3 Malcolm X says, ‘Black be proud, for black is beautiful.’ 1965 Liberation (N.Y.) Sept. 25/1 Radical blacks turn inward to united fronts and to ‘black is beautiful’ stated as an ideological principle. 1967 Black Panther 20 July 24/3 The hangup is that they have tried to sweep ‘Black’ under the rug for all these years and can't stand us digging ‘Black is Beautiful’. 1971 Black Scholar Apr. 15/2 These prisons boast Soul Shows, Black is Beautiful days, and bongo sessions in the yard. 1973 A. Dundes Mother Wit 231 In ‘The Language of Soul’ we find an important reversal in attitude, a reversal which is..in harmony with the general ‘Black is Beautiful’ philosophy. 1983 Washington Post 22 Sept. dc 1/1 I remember how black was beautiful 10 years ago and have since been struck with how abruptly the Afro was cut short. 2004 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 33 308 ‘Black is beautiful’... was less about the attractiveness of a particular skin color than about the advancement of black consciousness and pride that was central to the civil rights movement. P10. Originally U.S. black-on-black: designating violence, crime, or (less frequently) discrimination in which both perpetrator and victim are black; (sometimes more generally) that occurs between black people; cf. white-on-white at white adj. and n. Phrases 9. ΚΠ 1968 Chicago Daily Defender 16 Mar. 11/7 The violence of black man stabbing black man, mugging black man stomping black man, raping black woman. Black on black. And a black crime against a black gets cancelled out in the mind of a white precinct commander. 1974 Black World May 20/1 In turn, Black-on-Black violence has increased along with the incidence of Black violence against whites. 1981 Washington Post 1 Jan. (District Weekly) d.c.2/1 This cab driver..gave me..a textbook case of the still-vigorous system of black-on-black discrimination in D.C. 1998 Gay Times Aug. 84/3 (advt.) Second Time Around... The sequel to the black-on-black gay love story The B-Boy Blues. 2005 Northern Territory News (Darwin) (Nexis) 22 Nov. (Entertainm. section) 25 The story takes place against a backdrop of black-on-black violence. P11. Originally and chiefly U.S. black-on-white: designating violence, crime, or (less frequently) discrimination in which the perpetrator is black and the victim is white; cf. white-on-black at white adj. and n. Phrases 11. ΚΠ 1968 Harvard Law Rev. 82 503 Judge X is likely to be rough, while Judge Y is apt to be lenient on certain interracial (black on white) assaults. 1973 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 2 Dec. v. 2/2 The above letter arrived with four articles..pertaining to Black on White crimes. 1981 Black Enterprise Mar. 42 (heading) Officials say that black-on-white crime is blown out of proportion by the press. 1996 Observer 14 Jan. (Life section) 6/2 He..is accused of black-on-white racism, yet his films frequently depict whites trying to do the right thing. 2011 M. Bucholtz White Kids ii. 26 Rumors of black-on-white violence were widespread among white students and their parents. < as lemmas |
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