单词 | to open one's eyes |
释义 | > as lemmasto open one's eyes (to) b. transitive. To uncover (an eye) by parting the eyelids, so as to allow one to see; to part (the eyelids); (also) to restore sight to (a person). In extended or allusive use: to open one's eyes (to): to take notice (of), look carefully (at); (also) to adopt an expression of surprise or wonder (at); to open a person's eyes (also to make a person open his (or her) eyes): to cause a person to see; to enlighten or undeceive a person; to cause to appreciate a problematic or unusual situation; (also) to cause a person to stare in astonishment. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > enlightenment > enlighten [verb (transitive)] to open a person's eyeslOE clear1399 illumine?1499 illustrate1526 illightena1555 illuminate?1566 unblind1598 irradiate1628 unblindfold1643 to know (also learn, show, teach, tell) (a person) a thing or two1760 illumea1764 enlighten1811 lOE Homily: Evangelium de Virginibus (Corpus Cambr. 303) in H. L. C. Tristram Vier Altenglische Predigten aus der Heterodoxen Trad. (Ph.D. diss., Freiburg) (1970) 445 Þa þe..openiað heora heorta eagene to geseonne godes rice. c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 73 Hwa mihte openiȝan þa unsceapenæ eaȝen and him sihðe ȝifen. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 130 (MED) Þous deþ þe holy gost to þe zeneȝere þe eȝen openi. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 19788 Wiþ þat ho openid hir eye-lid. c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 705 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 27 In þat howre god hopnyt þar ewyn. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1929) ix. 37 Open your eyes in the pleasaunt scoles Of parfyte connynge. 1560 J. Knox Answer Great Nomber Blasphemous Cauillations 371 I send thee that thou maist open the eyes of those that be blind, that they may conuert from..the power of sathan vnto God. ?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1584) 6 Swalowes..with Sellendine open thir yung ones eyes. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders ii. xxxix. 320 The mouse which had eaten vp this breaden god, should haue made them open their eyes to see the cosening tricks wherewith they had bene abused. 1627 Bp. J. Hall Epist. iv. iii. 341 Let vs but open our eyes, we cannot looke beside a lesson. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 33 Open your eyes to the light of grace, a better guide then Nature. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. xxiii. 132 Without speaking or opening his Eyes for many months, onely some odd mimicall gestures he used. 1744 London Mag. 13 App. 627/2 The Weight of a Land War, supported almost entirely at our Expence, would soon make us open our Eyes. 1769 tr. P. de Charlevoix Hist. Paraguay I. vii. 401 I am likewise come a great way,..to endeavour to make you open your eyes to your nearest concerns. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 202 He attempted to open her eyes in the way of exhortation. 1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 439 The muscles that open the eyelids..may be called the elevator, depressor, adductor, and abductor. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 545 Instead of the money came excuses..which ought to have opened the eyes of all who were not wilfully blind. 1874 Q. Rev. 136 131 Already the eyes of her prelates..are being opened to the hollowness of the plea. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xii Father opened his eyes at the price the first pen brought. 1905 G. B. Shaw Let. (1972) II. 551 I have striven hard to open English eyes to the emptiness of Shakespeare's philosophy. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 66/3 (advt.) Open your eyes and see how the room spreads out to welcome you. 1989 Viz Dec. 6 ‘Open your eyes ref,’ I shouted. ‘Are you blind or something?’ 2011 Alberni Valley (Brit. Columbia) Times (Nexis) 19 Dec. a9 In the year-end events it seems there is always something to make you open your eyes wide. < as lemmas |
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