英语词汇“to seek a knot in a ring”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†b. to seek (search for, look for, find) a knot or knots in a rush or bulrush (Latin nodum in scirpo quærere), to seek or make difficulties where there are none; also, to seek a knot in a ring. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > make difficulties > seek difficulties where there are none

to seek (search for, look for, find) a knot or knots in a rush or bulrush1340

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 253 Þet zekþ þet uel ine þe aye oþer þane knotte ine þe resse.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1315/2 To streine gnattes, to stumble at strawes, and to seke knottes in rushes.

a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iii. sig. F^v They seeke a knot in a ring, that would wrong My maister or his seruants in this Court.

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. iii. 36 To enquire after [this], were to search for a knot in a rush.

1712 W. Oldisworth tr. R. Bentley Note in Horace Odes II. i. iv. 7/2 The Grammarians therefore do in this place look for a Knot in a Bull-rush.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. §43 533 Those, that sought Knots in Bulrushes to obstruct the King's Affairs in Parliament.

单词	to seek a knot in a ring
释义	> as lemmas to seek a knot in a ring †b. to seek (search for, look for, find) a knot or knots in a rush or bulrush (Latin nodum in scirpo quærere), to seek or make difficulties where there are none; also, to seek a knot in a ring. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > make difficulties > seek difficulties where there are none to seek (search for, look for, find) a knot or knots in a rush or bulrush1340 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 253 Þet zekþ þet uel ine þe aye oþer þane knotte ine þe resse. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1315/2 To streine gnattes, to stumble at strawes, and to seke knottes in rushes. a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iii. sig. F^v They seeke a knot in a ring, that would wrong My maister or his seruants in this Court. 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. iii. 36 To enquire after [this], were to search for a knot in a rush. 1712 W. Oldisworth tr. R. Bentley Note in Horace Odes II. i. iv. 7/2 The Grammarians therefore do in this place look for a Knot in a Bull-rush. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. §43 533 Those, that sought Knots in Bulrushes to obstruct the King's Affairs in Parliament. extracted from knotn.¹ < as lemmas
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