| 单词 | to stand eye of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stand eye of Phrases to stand eye of and variants: to regard (someone or something) with awe; (in early use) to be fearful or terrified of, to dread. Cf. to stand awe of at awe n.1 Phrases 1a, to stand in awe of at awe n.1 Phrases 1b. a. Originally with eye as the subject of stand, the person affected by fear expressed as the dative object (often placed before the verb), and the cause of the fear frequently specified after of (or less commonly to, from), e.g. Old English him stent ege of ðe ‘eye of thee stands (or will stand) to them’ (i.e. there is (or will be) fear of you on their part). ΚΠ OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xxviii. 10 Ealle men geseoð ðæt ðu Drihten lufast; him stent ege of ðe [L. timebunt te]. OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxxv. 9 To þam egsan sceal æghwylc habban, þe wera gastum wealdeð and healdeð; eorðcynincgum se ege standeð. a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) l. 18 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 161 Mare eie stondeð men of monne þanne hom do of criste. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5834 Him ne stod æie to na-þing [c1300 Otho him ne stod eye of no-þing]. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 7090 Of wer no þurt ous stond no aye. a1450 St. Faith (Bodl.) l. 105 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1889) 82 325 Of þy torment ne stondiþ me non eye. b. With the dative object reanalysed or recast as subject of stand and eye as the object, e.g. ‘We stood no eye of them’. ΚΠ a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 39 He þat is recheles and non eige ne stand of louerde. c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) l. 530 Aȝein to bataille þei wente..Neueron of oþer ne stod eie. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 150 He stode of him non eye. a1450–1509 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (A-version) (1913) l. 3633 Off hym and hys we stode swilk eye. < as lemmas |
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