英语词汇“to smell of the candle, lamp, oil”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. Of literary work, in the phrases to smell of the candle, lamp, oil, etc., to show signs of being laboured and artificial.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > be laboured or pedantic

to smell of the candle, lamp, oil1542

to smell of (or taste) the lamp1579

to smell of the inkhorn1587

to smell of oil1646

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 333 Pythias obiected..that his argumentes of rhetorike smelled all of the candle.

1579 T. North tr. Demosthenes in Plutarch Lives (1595) 889 Pytheas..taunting him on a time, tolde him, his reasons smelled of the lampe. Yea, replied Demosthenes sharply againe: so is there great difference, Pytheas, betwixt thy labor and myne by lampelight.

1616 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching (new ed.) in Wks. (1620) I. 586 It is an honour to a sermon, when (as the saying is) it shall smell of the candle.

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Prol. for the Court A Worke not smelling of the Lampe.

1650 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Crastini Anim. 16 As were that worth our Braines, and Midnight Oyle.

1675 E. Wilson Spadacrene Dunelmensis 72 That work needs not smell of Oyl.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xx. 309 That dry..pedantic..Style which smells of the Lamp and the College.

1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2883 I asked [Lord Chatham]..how..he could always speak with so much extempore eloquence..without its smelling of the lamp.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vii. 639 Even those [sc. letters] to his sister..smell too much of the lamp.

1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 282 His sentences..smell of the library.

1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. iv. 91 Hardly any poet smells of the lamp less disagreeably than Spenser.

1927 J. Galsworthy Castles in Spain 154 At times he wrote stories unworthy of him. At times his work smelled of the lamp.

1953 G. S. Fraser Mod. Writer & his World iii. iv. 254 This desire of his..to be ‘complex’ and to bring in a wide range of cultural references at all costs does make his work sometimes smell a little of the lamp.

单词	to smell of the candle, lamp, oil
释义	> as lemmas to smell of the candle, lamp, oil c. Of literary work, in the phrases to smell of the candle, lamp, oil, etc., to show signs of being laboured and artificial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > be laboured or pedantic to smell of the candle, lamp, oil1542 to smell of (or taste) the lamp1579 to smell of the inkhorn1587 to smell of oil1646 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 333 Pythias obiected..that his argumentes of rhetorike smelled all of the candle. 1579 T. North tr. Demosthenes in Plutarch Lives (1595) 889 Pytheas..taunting him on a time, tolde him, his reasons smelled of the lampe. Yea, replied Demosthenes sharply againe: so is there great difference, Pytheas, betwixt thy labor and myne by lampelight. 1616 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching (new ed.) in Wks. (1620) I. 586 It is an honour to a sermon, when (as the saying is) it shall smell of the candle. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Prol. for the Court A Worke not smelling of the Lampe. 1650 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Crastini Anim. 16 As were that worth our Braines, and Midnight Oyle. 1675 E. Wilson Spadacrene Dunelmensis 72 That work needs not smell of Oyl. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xx. 309 That dry..pedantic..Style which smells of the Lamp and the College. 1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2883 I asked [Lord Chatham]..how..he could always speak with so much extempore eloquence..without its smelling of the lamp. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vii. 639 Even those [sc. letters] to his sister..smell too much of the lamp. 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 282 His sentences..smell of the library. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. iv. 91 Hardly any poet smells of the lamp less disagreeably than Spenser. 1927 J. Galsworthy Castles in Spain 154 At times he wrote stories unworthy of him. At times his work smelled of the lamp. 1953 G. S. Fraser Mod. Writer & his World iii. iv. 254 This desire of his..to be ‘complex’ and to bring in a wide range of cultural references at all costs does make his work sometimes smell a little of the lamp. extracted from smellv. < as lemmas
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