英语词汇“to suck an orange”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. to suck (also †squeeze) an (or my, the, etc.) orange: to extract all profit, vitality, etc., from something. Similarly sucked (also † squeezed) orange.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > be used up or consumed [verb (intransitive)] > consume all that is profitable

to suck (also squeeze) an (or my, the, etc.) orange1631

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xvii. 178 Now that wee haue squeez'd the Orange, and wrung out of this foole as much as wee desire to know; I thinke it not amisse, that we goe to seeke out that dogs-face, at his house.

1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 4 So soon as the Orange is squeezed, it's thrown upon the ground.

1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor III. v. 78 I remembered the proceeding of the despot, Frederic of Prussia, with the immortal Voltaire: the orange had been squeezed, and the rind thrown to rot in the highway.

1822 G. Canning in G. Canning & his Times 364 For fame, it is a squeezed orange; but for public good there is something to do.

1860 R. W. Emerson Culture in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 119 New York is a sucked orange.

1884 H. Smart From Post to Finish I. vii. 108 It is rather rough on the boy..to suddenly discover that his father had sucked the orange, and that he has merely inherited the skin.

1941 P. Larkin Let. 17 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 14 We emerge feeling as if our heads were 8 feet across, like sucked oranges, unable to concentrate.

1986 J. Burchill Sex & Sensibility (1992) 72 Beauty contests are a sucked orange, much too redundant to boil blood.

单词	to suck an orange
释义	> as lemmas to suck (also †squeeze) an (or my, the, etc.) orange P1. to suck (also †squeeze) an (or my, the, etc.) orange: to extract all profit, vitality, etc., from something. Similarly sucked (also † squeezed) orange. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > be used up or consumed [verb (intransitive)] > consume all that is profitable to suck (also squeeze) an (or my, the, etc.) orange1631 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xvii. 178 Now that wee haue squeez'd the Orange, and wrung out of this foole as much as wee desire to know; I thinke it not amisse, that we goe to seeke out that dogs-face, at his house. 1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 4 So soon as the Orange is squeezed, it's thrown upon the ground. 1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor III. v. 78 I remembered the proceeding of the despot, Frederic of Prussia, with the immortal Voltaire: the orange had been squeezed, and the rind thrown to rot in the highway. 1822 G. Canning in G. Canning & his Times 364 For fame, it is a squeezed orange; but for public good there is something to do. 1860 R. W. Emerson Culture in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 119 New York is a sucked orange. 1884 H. Smart From Post to Finish I. vii. 108 It is rather rough on the boy..to suddenly discover that his father had sucked the orange, and that he has merely inherited the skin. 1941 P. Larkin Let. 17 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 14 We emerge feeling as if our heads were 8 feet across, like sucked oranges, unable to concentrate. 1986 J. Burchill Sex & Sensibility (1992) 72 Beauty contests are a sucked orange, much too redundant to boil blood. extracted from orangen.¹adj.¹ < as lemmas
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