单词 | with eyes open |
释义 | > as lemmaswith eyes (wide) open c. Of an eye: having the eyelid raised, as when a person is awake; not closed; seeing, watching. Also figurative, with the implication either of attentiveness or of surprise (cf. to make a person open his (or her) eyes at open v. 3b); with eyes (wide) open and variants: fully aware of the risks and other implications of an action or situation.to keep one's eyes open: see eye n.1 Phrases 2j. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > having watchful eyes > of eyes: watchful openeOE lidless1796 lidless-eyed1818 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxiv. 340 Þa geseah heo openum eagum. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxviii. 251 Efne þes sunderhalga þe we ær ymbe spræcon., hæfde opene eagan to forhæfednysse. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 53 (MED) Vre egen ben eure opene to biholde ure helende. c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 10 And smale foweles maken melodye That slepen al the nyght with open eye. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 183 (MED) I stod ful stylle..Wyth yȝen open and mouth ful clos. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 256 (MED) Þou alonelie is he þat hase had in me þine een oppyn & sene me. a1500 Gospel of Nicodemus (Harl. 149) (1974) 17 (MED) Oure meeke Lorde Jhesu lyft open the yghen of the hertes of appostlys. 1572 T. Churchyard tr. Ovid Thre First Bookes De Tristibus ii. f. 14 Wyth open eyes here to discusse, our idle earthly ioyes. 1609 T. Dekker Ravevens Almanacke 10 You shall cleerelye, and with an open eye beholde all the parts, which I..act amongst the Starres. 1663 R. Stapleton Slighted Maid iv. 57 Now with open eyes I see my folly. 1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous i. 47 Directing your open Eyes toward yonder Part of the Heaven. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice II. xv. 183 But she had chosen it with her eyes open . View more context for this quotation 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) vi. 71 ‘By your father?’ enquired Mr. Pinch, with open eyes. 1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 112 The parachute jumper..might have been asleep save for his open eyes. 1971 K. Awoonor This Earth, my Brother ii. 22 Now, let's have a drink, said Row, who could hardly keep his eyes open. 1991 O. Chadwick Michael Rasay (BNC) 24 He cared about the intellectual question in religious life. He looked at the difficulties, with open eyes. < as lemmas |
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