| 单词 | workshop of the world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworkshop of the world b. figurative and in extended use: a (notional) place in which things are produced or created; spec. a centre of industry; frequently in workshop of the world. ΘΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > place of production or creation shop1517 workhouse?1533 workshop1561 childbed1568 factory1618 laboratory1654 elaboratory1667 hotbed1693 mill1771 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 81v Vnclennesse and defiling of the fleshe. Let euery man thynke wt himselfe out of what workshop [L. officina] these things be come. 1645 S. Marshall Gods Master-piece 29 This goodly world..is set up onely as a shop, as a Work-shop to stand onely for a week. 1716 Nature Display'd i. iv. 59 Man represents the Universe by his Brain, being the Work-shop of his animal Spirits. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 62 Two accurate treatises, which come from the workshop of the Benedictines. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. v. 67 Fergus's brain was a perpetual workshop of scheme and intrigue. View more context for this quotation 1838 B. Disraeli in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 41 939/2 To suppose that..the continent would suffer England to be the workshop for the world. 1878 H. P. Gurney Crystallogr. 8 The workshop of Nature. 1900 W. P. Ker Ess. Dryden Introd. p. xxi If he cannot explain the secrets of the dramatic workshop. 1950 J. Jenks From Ground Up xxi. 215 We became for a time not only the workshop of the world, but its merchant, carrier, and banker as well. 2005 J. T. Cumbler N.E. & Midwest U.S.: Environmental Hist. v. 129 Pittsburgh was a veritable workshop, and its air hung heavy with charcoal smoke. < as lemmas |
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