英语词汇“while the grass grows”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. while the grass grows, the horse starves and variants: the consequence of waiting on one resource may be to lose a more important one; also shortened to while the grass grows.Now chiefly in financial or economic contexts. [Compare e.g. post-classical Latin ante nouam moriens procumbit cornipes herbam, lit. ‘before the new grass the horse falls down dying’ (a1100) and also dum herba crescit equus moritur, (1243), dum gramen crescit, equs interit, both lit. ‘while the grass grows the horse dies’ (c1450 in a British source), and also Anglo-Norman Endementiers que l'erbe es vals Renaist et croist, moert ly chivals, lit. ‘while the grass is down below, springs up, and grows, the horse dies’ (second half of the 14th cent., in J. Gower Mirour de l'omme, l. 5593).]

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c1450 Summa Dictaminis Epistolarum (Rylands Lat. 394) f. 7^v While þe gresse growes þe good hors sterues, Gramen dum crescit equus in moriendo quiescit.

1586 R. Lane Acct. in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations (1589) 744 Wee might very well starue, notwithstanding the growing corne, like the staruing horse in the stable, with the growing grasse as the prouerbe is.

1688 Let. from Clergy-man in Country to Clergy-man in City 37 Take the Opportunity which now presents, than to stay and starve while your Grass grows.

1719 J. Dunton State-weathercocks p. xxi But whilst the Grass Grows the Steed Starves, for as yet I have Received no other Reward for this Distinguished Service to the House of Hannover.

1765 S. Foote Commissary iii. 48 She refuses to advance me a guinea upon the credit of it, and while the grass grows—You know the proverb.

1847 Punch 12 June 245/2 As the steed starves while the grass grows, so are the shareholders starving while the weeds are springing up on this suburban railway.

1882 Anglo-Amer. Times 7 Apr. 7/2 It is no use telling a man it can produce sugar..for while the grass grows the horse starves.

1933 Times 20 Dec. 19/6 But while the grass grows, the horse starves; sections of our Mercantile Marine are threatened with ruin by the concentrated attack of foreign nations.

1997 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 20 Sept. a5/3 The old adage ‘while the grass grows the horse starves’ best describes your current economic policy.

2013 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 1 Jan. 15 Dave Conway accused the authority of ‘letting the grass grow while the horse starves’ after reserves were increased.

单词	while the grass grows
释义	> as lemmas while the grass grows a. while the grass grows, the horse starves and variants: the consequence of waiting on one resource may be to lose a more important one; also shortened to while the grass grows.Now chiefly in financial or economic contexts. [Compare e.g. post-classical Latin ante nouam moriens procumbit cornipes herbam, lit. ‘before the new grass the horse falls down dying’ (a1100) and also dum herba crescit equus moritur, (1243), dum gramen crescit, equs interit, both lit. ‘while the grass grows the horse dies’ (c1450 in a British source), and also Anglo-Norman Endementiers que l'erbe es vals Renaist et croist, moert ly chivals, lit. ‘while the grass is down below, springs up, and grows, the horse dies’ (second half of the 14th cent., in J. Gower Mirour de l'omme, l. 5593).] ΚΠ c1450 Summa Dictaminis Epistolarum (Rylands Lat. 394) f. 7^v While þe gresse growes þe good hors sterues, Gramen dum crescit equus in moriendo quiescit. 1586 R. Lane Acct. in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations (1589) 744 Wee might very well starue, notwithstanding the growing corne, like the staruing horse in the stable, with the growing grasse as the prouerbe is. 1688 Let. from Clergy-man in Country to Clergy-man in City 37 Take the Opportunity which now presents, than to stay and starve while your Grass grows. 1719 J. Dunton State-weathercocks p. xxi But whilst the Grass Grows the Steed Starves, for as yet I have Received no other Reward for this Distinguished Service to the House of Hannover. 1765 S. Foote Commissary iii. 48 She refuses to advance me a guinea upon the credit of it, and while the grass grows—You know the proverb. 1847 Punch 12 June 245/2 As the steed starves while the grass grows, so are the shareholders starving while the weeds are springing up on this suburban railway. 1882 Anglo-Amer. Times 7 Apr. 7/2 It is no use telling a man it can produce sugar..for while the grass grows the horse starves. 1933 Times 20 Dec. 19/6 But while the grass grows, the horse starves; sections of our Mercantile Marine are threatened with ruin by the concentrated attack of foreign nations. 1997 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 20 Sept. a5/3 The old adage ‘while the grass grows the horse starves’ best describes your current economic policy. 2013 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 1 Jan. 15 Dave Conway accused the authority of ‘letting the grass grow while the horse starves’ after reserves were increased. extracted from grassn.¹ < as lemmas
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