| 单词 | to wear one's learning lightly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wear one's learning lightly P4. to wear one's learning lightly and variants: to be unpretentious or self-effacing about one's knowledge, expertise, or intellectual achievements.After the poem In Memoriam by Tennyson (see quot. 1850), originally and in early use frequently in fuller form to wear the weight of learning lightly like a flower and variants. ΚΠ 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 205 Thou art..liberal-minded, great, Consistent; wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower. 1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home xxxii. 423 Of all the men of his year, he was the most honoured and respected; he wore the weight both of his honours and his learning ‘lightly like a flower’. 1875 United Presbyterian Mag. Apr. 180/1 Dr. Meyer carries his learning lightly, and you are pleased with the ease and grace and point of his remarks, as well as with his abundant learning. 1990 A. Stevens On Jung ix. 190 He wore his vast erudition lightly, and people who met him were impressed as much by his simplicity, humour and courtesy as they were by his wisdom. 2018 Guardian (Nexis) 14 May Already an expert in the field, she wore her learning lightly... She combined penetrating questions with a compassion for the patients. < as lemmas |
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