单词 | to sit at the feet of |
释义 | > as lemmasto sit at the feet of P6. to sit at the feet of: to be the disciple or pupil of (a person), to learn from (a teacher); (also) to pay homage to (a person). ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > [verb (transitive)] > be pupil of to go to school (to, (also with))a1450 to sit at the feet of1578 to sit under ——1631 to be up to1874 1578 W. Gace tr. M. Luther Special & Chosen Serm. viii. 101 I will like vnto Marie, sit at his feete to heare his worde. 1597 P. Barker Prophecie of Agabus sig. B5v Let him that sate in Moses chaire sometime sit at Gamaliels feete. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. ii. xxiii. 136/2 How Learnedly he now conveyed all the Liberal Arts unto those that sat at his Feet. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. iv. 110 You want a woman..to sit at your feet, and cry ‘O caro! O bravo!’ whilst you read your Shakspeares, and Miltons. 1926 G. M. Trevelyan Hist. Eng. v. iii. 557 They [sc. the Whigs] had sat at the feet of Edmund Burke. 1971 Nature 5 Mar. 2/2 It is clear that there are far more universities per square mile in Britain than are necessary to enable students to sit at the feet of some teacher or other. 2002 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 20 Dec. 14 I was there to sit at the feet of the masters. < as lemmas |
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