| 单词 | tunnel vision |
| 释义 | > as lemmastunnel vision tunnel vision n. a condition in which there is a major loss of peripheral vision; also, one in which anything away from the centre of one's field of view escapes attention; also figurative, inability to see more than a single or limited point of view. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [noun] narrow-mindedness1646 parvanimitya1691 narrowness1697 narrow-spiritedness1709 little-mindedness1767 narrow-mindeda1774 contraction1775 illiberality1775 smallness1813 illiberalism1839 narrow-heartedness1850 single-track mind1919 tunnel vision1949 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > limited visual field hemiopia1811 scotoma1821 concentric contraction1858 hemianopia1882 hemianopsia1883 field defect1884 quadrantanopia1909 quadrantanopsia1910 macular sparing1940 tunnel vision1949 1949 Snygg & Combs Individ. Behav. vi. 110 It has often been observed that in emotional experiences there exists a very high degree of attention sometimes referred to as ‘tunnel vision’. 1949 Snygg & Combs Individ. Behav. vii. 125 This narrowing of the field is particularly likely to occur when the individual feels he is threatened. The effect has sometimes been called ‘tunnel vision’. 1962 Times 3 Apr. 17/2 One of the dangers of ‘tunnel vision’ in driving was brought home to a motorist who recently took the test of the Institute of Advanced Motorists. 1967 Freedomways 7 137 The confused black college graduate, thrust out into a hostile racist society and handicapped by tunnel vision and a self-negating perspective. 1968 New Scientist 29 Aug. 449/3 The alternative theory, that of ‘Tunnel Vision’. The idea here is that a high level of arousal causes the brain to select very narrowly from among the signals reaching the eyes. 1979 Daily Tel. 7 Apr. 3/2 He was now registered as blind. He had tunnel vision, but even this was imperfect... There was some brain damage. 1980 T. Barling Goodbye Piccadilly viii. 169 Prebble had the ghetto mind and the tunnel-vision of a committed social climber. 1985 Observer 10 Mar. 5/1 Only someone with Tony Benn's tunnel vision could see the strike as ‘a turning point in the battle against monetarism’. < as lemmas |
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