| 单词 | wheel of providence |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswheel of Providence a. The wheel which Fortune is fabled to turn, an emblem of mutability. (See also 5) So wheel of Providence (rare). to set or sit high on the wheel (of Fortune): to make or be highly fortunate; the wheel has come full circle and variants (in allusion to Shakespeare King Lear v. iii. 165), the same situation has come about again, things have returned to their original position. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > wheel of fortune wheelc888 stagea1300 spoke1412 rooc1440 wheel of custronsc1450 the world > action or operation > prosperity > cause to prosper or flourish [verb (transitive)] > make fortunate fortune14.. fortunatec1420 to set or sit high on the wheel1487 luck1530 fortunize1596 the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [noun] > symbol of tide1390 wheel of Providence1655 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > reversal [phrase] Tottenham is turned French1546 to turn the tables1612 to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)1642 the boot is on the other leg1854 the shoe is on the other foot1933 the wheel has come full circle1944 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. vii. §2 Wenst þu þæt ðu þæt hwerfende hweol þonne hit on ryne wyrð mæge oncerran? a1300 Cursor Mundi 23719 Dame fortune turnes þan hir quele. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 24 Huanne þe lheuedi of hap heþ hire hueȝel y~went. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 4660 Þe qwele of qwistounes ȝoure qualite encreses. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 67 Thanked be Fortune and hir false wheel. 1448–9 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes 389 O fortune,..Qwy chongyddyst thow thi qwele causeles? 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 637 Fortoune... This mychty kyng of yngland Scho had set on her quheill on hicht. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 448 Fortune turned her wheele and downe went this Colony. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 228 So fatall a thing it is, for the greatest and straitest Amities of Kings, at one time or other to haue a little of the Wheele. a1629 T. Wilson tr. J. de Montemayor Diana in Revue Hispanique (1920) 50 396 To hoping then giue confidence will I When fickle chance I once haue conquered Afixt a nayle in ffortunes turning whyle. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xxix. 70 Till the great wheel of providence turn up another spoke. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 22 The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 19 Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud. 1916 L. Tracy Day of Wrath v The turn of fortune's wheel was distinctly favourable. 1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge v. 176 The wheel comes full circle... There was a time when the black sheep of the family was sent from my country to America; now apparently he's sent from your country [sc. America] to Europe. 1954 J. A. Sheard Words we Use iv. 158 Old English had a derivative noun, godspellere, but this..was later replaced by a foreign loan-word,..evangelist... But in recent years the wheel has come full circle, and by a new process of derivation the Americans have their hot gospellers! 1966 W. H. Lewis in Lett. C. S. Lewis 24 The wheel had come full circle: once again we were together in the little end room at home. 1977 J. Crosby Company of Friends xviii. 117 The wheel was coming full circle. The public was fed to the teeth with disclosure. It yearned for the security of secrecy. < as lemmas |
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