英语词汇“to save the world”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P11. to save the world: to improve the condition or state of the world, esp. in some specific (in later use esp. environmental) aspect; (sometimes) spec. to seek to do this with well-meaning but unrealistic aims or motives.

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1829 F. Wright Courses of Pop. Lect. 139 Think not that canals and railroads are to advance the nation, nor that steamboats and spinning-jennies are to save the world.

1879 G. MacDonald Paul Faber III. i. 14 The man who dabbles at saving the world by science, education, hygeian and other economics.

1937 J. G. Fletcher Life is my Song xxvi. 358 Those who, for some reason or other, wished to canalize their neuroticism into the easy and obvious direction of ‘saving the world’.

1982 Guardian 8 May 18/5 The World Conservation Strategy.., in effect an SOS to save the world.

1994 C. McCann in D. Bolger Picador Bk. Contemp. Irish Fiction 535 Truth be told, most staff at the State School don't much like the social-work students. They come in, on their work placement, thinking they can save the world.

2012 Observer 4 Mar. 32 (heading) Liquid metal batteries may save the world.

单词	to save the world
释义	> as lemmas to save the world P11. to save the world: to improve the condition or state of the world, esp. in some specific (in later use esp. environmental) aspect; (sometimes) spec. to seek to do this with well-meaning but unrealistic aims or motives. ΚΠ 1829 F. Wright Courses of Pop. Lect. 139 Think not that canals and railroads are to advance the nation, nor that steamboats and spinning-jennies are to save the world. 1879 G. MacDonald Paul Faber III. i. 14 The man who dabbles at saving the world by science, education, hygeian and other economics. 1937 J. G. Fletcher Life is my Song xxvi. 358 Those who, for some reason or other, wished to canalize their neuroticism into the easy and obvious direction of ‘saving the world’. 1982 Guardian 8 May 18/5 The World Conservation Strategy.., in effect an SOS to save the world. 1994 C. McCann in D. Bolger Picador Bk. Contemp. Irish Fiction 535 Truth be told, most staff at the State School don't much like the social-work students. They come in, on their work placement, thinking they can save the world. 2012 Observer 4 Mar. 32 (heading) Liquid metal batteries may save the world. extracted from savev. < as lemmas
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