| 单词 | unmaking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunˈmaking unˈmaking n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [noun] gain-turning1340 reversion1547 regression1583 unmaking1587 retrogradation1638 repedation1646 metathesis1653 recommencement1655 antecedency1656 remutation1692 reconversion1759 relapsing1772 recurrence1789 revertal1824 switcheroo1933 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxii. 380 And the Poets themselues, who made the Gods to be such as they be, take as great pleasure in the vnmaking of them, as little Children doe in playing with their Puppets. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iii. i. 254 Though he seems to admit Eternal Vicissitudes of such Making, and Unmaking, and Restitutions of the inferior World. 1867 H. Bushnell Moral Uses Dark Things 285 A general unmaking of the world by transgression. 1871 S. Smiles Character xi. 324 A wife may be the making or the unmaking of the best of men. 1951 J. R. R. Tolkien Lett. (1995) 160 We are to see the overthrow of the last incarnation of Evil, the unmaking of the Ring,..and the return in majesty of the true King. 2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Sept. 66/1 The making and unmaking of Prussia should be understood..as part of a distinctively Central European political evolution. < as lemmas |
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