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单词 to pass one's eye over
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to pass one's eye over
a. transitive. To move, draw, push, or guide in some particular direction. With preposition of direction, as to pass one's hand over, to pass a rope round, etc. to pass one's eye over: to glance rapidly or cursorily over. to pass a wet sponge over (figurative, now rare): to obliterate the memory of.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > pass (something flexible) along, over, or through
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1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 47 In the attesting of Bills..not to pass his eyes slightly over them.
1695 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scotl. (1876) II. 254 [The Lords] ordaine the master of his majesties mint to pass under his majesteis irons the said..fourtie shilling peices.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 434 I..had only time to pass my Eye over the Medals, which are in great Number.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (1780) Spring is..a rope passed out of one extremity of a ship and attached to a cable proceeding from the other.
1853 M. Arnold Sohrab & Rustum in Poems (new ed.) 10 O'er his chilly limbs his woollen coat He pass'd.
1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead II. ii. ii. 114 He had passed the wet sponge over the slate containing any records of his early life.
1887 W. F. Barry New Antigone III. xxxiv. 213 Ivor..was convinced that the fever had passed a sponge not only over Hippolyta's name, but over the scenes wherein she had appeared.
1951 S. H. Bell December Bride i. v. 31 She passed her hand across her bruised forehead.
1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) xii. 519/2 Mouse, a small weight used to pass a line through a narrow vertical space.
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