| 单词 | to seal lips |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto seal (a person's) lips b. In figurative phrases, esp. to seal (a person's) lips, to bind or constrain to silence or secrecy; to seal (a person's) eyes or ears, to render blind or deaf, also to restrain from looking or listening. Also with up.In to seal the eyes, this verb is not always distinguishable from the figurative use of seel v.2 ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (transitive)] > listen to > restrain from hearing to seal (a person's) eyes or ears1633 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > prevent from seeing [verb (transitive)] > blindfold or cover eyes blindfold?c1225 to stop (a person's) eyes or sightc1380 enclose1477 silec1500 hoodwink1562 muffle1573 scarf1598 bluff1673 to seal (a person's) eyes or ears1700 bonnet1828 blink1846 occlude1921 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > keep secret [verb (transitive)] > bind to secrecy seal1782 the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > restrain a person or oneself from speaking to stop (one's own or another's) mouthc1384 seal1782 1633 S. Marmion Fine Compan. ii. ii. E 4 b I would seale my eares, Deafe as the sea, to shiprack't marriners. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 131 Sleep did his Office soon, and seal'd his Sight. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. i. viii. 113 I make it quite a principle to seal up my lips the moment I perceive him. 1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. xxii. 1184 And seal'd is now each lip that could have told. 1864 R. Browning James Lee's Wife iv. iii Seal my sense up for your sake? 1888 Sat. Rev. 4 Feb. 140/1 The two Ruthvens' mouths were thus sealed for ever. < as lemmas |
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