英语词汇“to turn white into black”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 call white black, to turn white into black (also to call black white, to turn black into white and variants): to call or make something the opposite of what it really is; to lie.

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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 2188 (MED) Of feigned wordes make him wene That blak is whyt and blew is grene.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 14394 (MED) He wyl make an Argument..And preue also that whyht ys blak.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. x. sig. B.viii^v More coumfort may he haue in his heart, that where whyte is called blacke..abydeth by the trueth.

1570 L. Tomson Answere Assertions Fecknam f. 74^v Put not a Lyons skin vppon an Asse. Call white, white: and blacke, blacke: good, good: and bad, bad.

1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse To Rdr. sig. ☞7 Making black of white, Chalke of Cheese.

1602 J. Darrell Replie to Answer I. Deacon & I. Walker i. 1 To perswade that white is blacke, that fire is Ice, that it is dark night in the cleare sunshine.

a1637 N. Ferrar tr. J. de Valdés 110 Considerations (1638) xv. 35 A Christian person should alwaies stand upon his guard touching this point, in such manner, that he come not to be couzened with the white for the black, nor the black for the white.

1672 W. Walker Paroemiologia Anglo-Lat. 33 They turn black into white, and white into black. Nigra in candida vertunt, Juv.

1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 187 Nay, if my Lord affirm'd that Black was White, My Word was this; Your Honour's in the right.

1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 118 They taul sic flaws, An' wantet to mak' black o' white, Without a cause.

1829 R. Southey All for Love ix. 100 To prove..That right is wrong, and wrong is right, And white is black, and black is white.

1862 M. B. Betham-Edwards John & I III. i. 9 As well endeavour to show that black is white, as to prove that any temptations you may have had can in the smallest degree palliate you.

1896 B. L. Farjeon Betrayal of John Fordham iv. 299 It don't make black white, 'cause I'm a wrong 'un.

1901 H. B. Workman Dawn Reformation I. v. 254 The art of making black into white by rules of logic was nowhere more highly esteemed than in the Universities of Paris and Oxford.

1979 Maclean's 7 May 64/1 Great stuff! Black is white. Bad is good. Newspeak lives.

2011 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 28 June 2 They call white, black, and black, white, and live in a topsy-turvy world. But I have to take them seriously.

单词	to turn white into black
释义	> as lemmas to turn white into black b. to call white black, to turn white into black (also to call black white, to turn black into white and variants): to call or make something the opposite of what it really is; to lie. ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 2188 (MED) Of feigned wordes make him wene That blak is whyt and blew is grene. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 14394 (MED) He wyl make an Argument..And preue also that whyht ys blak. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. x. sig. B.viii^v More coumfort may he haue in his heart, that where whyte is called blacke..abydeth by the trueth. 1570 L. Tomson Answere Assertions Fecknam f. 74^v Put not a Lyons skin vppon an Asse. Call white, white: and blacke, blacke: good, good: and bad, bad. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse To Rdr. sig. ☞7 Making black of white, Chalke of Cheese. 1602 J. Darrell Replie to Answer I. Deacon & I. Walker i. 1 To perswade that white is blacke, that fire is Ice, that it is dark night in the cleare sunshine. a1637 N. Ferrar tr. J. de Valdés 110 Considerations (1638) xv. 35 A Christian person should alwaies stand upon his guard touching this point, in such manner, that he come not to be couzened with the white for the black, nor the black for the white. 1672 W. Walker Paroemiologia Anglo-Lat. 33 They turn black into white, and white into black. Nigra in candida vertunt, Juv. 1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 187 Nay, if my Lord affirm'd that Black was White, My Word was this; Your Honour's in the right. 1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 118 They taul sic flaws, An' wantet to mak' black o' white, Without a cause. 1829 R. Southey All for Love ix. 100 To prove..That right is wrong, and wrong is right, And white is black, and black is white. 1862 M. B. Betham-Edwards John & I III. i. 9 As well endeavour to show that black is white, as to prove that any temptations you may have had can in the smallest degree palliate you. 1896 B. L. Farjeon Betrayal of John Fordham iv. 299 It don't make black white, 'cause I'm a wrong 'un. 1901 H. B. Workman Dawn Reformation I. v. 254 The art of making black into white by rules of logic was nowhere more highly esteemed than in the Universities of Paris and Oxford. 1979 Maclean's 7 May 64/1 Great stuff! Black is white. Bad is good. Newspeak lives. 2011 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 28 June 2 They call white, black, and black, white, and live in a topsy-turvy world. But I have to take them seriously. extracted from whiteadj.adv.n. < as lemmas
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