单词 | walking smile |
释义 | > as lemmaswalking smile c. Referring to a person who (or thing which) embodies the characteristics of an inanimate or non-material thing, an emotion, etc., as walking disaster, walking misery, walking smile, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [adjective] > of human form two-legged1560 manlike1590 walkinga1616 hominiform1678 human-like1748 anthropomorphous1753 anthropomorphic1827 anthropoid1835 personified1851 bimanal1859 anthropoidal1865 humanoid1914 hominoid1950 android- a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. v. 23 Life's but a walking Shadow, a poore Player, That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage, And then is heard no more. View more context for this quotation 1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. iii. sig. F1v Alas! I am nothing but a multitude of walking griefes. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine ii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gg3v/1 [His body is] a trunke-seller, to send wines downe in, Or a long walking-bottle. 1652 J. Shirley Brothers iii. 36 in Six New Playes (1653) You will be sir dishonour'd to be seen With such a walking misery. 1731 H. Fielding Welsh Opera ii. vi. 36 A scolding Wife is a walking Base-viol out of Tune. 1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians (ed. 5) 10 Our little old black Bantam Cock— Whose soul..With so much acrimony overflows, As makes him..A walking Thumb-bottle of Aqua-fortis. 1855 C. M. Charles Arvon II. vii. ii. 58 He was a walking wonder—charged to the full with danger and mystery. 1907 C. McEvoy Gentlemen of Road 5 Caroline. Shut it, yer makes me 'ead ake. Bill. You walking misery! 1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald Lett. (1963) 92 Before you see all those walking neuroses you can spend a day with the Taylors who have always liked you so much. 1980 E. Blishen Nest of Teachers i. v. 24 He was entirely charming—a walking smile, and nothing fake about it. 2001 Cosmopolitan Dec. 192/2 I told Craig Kilborn that college guys are ‘walking diseases’. I meant that college guys are spreading diseases rampantly. 2006 C. Hamlett Screenwriting for Teens lii. 104 Bakshi is a walking disaster on the backlot of a movie where he's cast as an extra. < as lemmas |
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