单词 | world picture |
释义 | > as lemmasworld picture world picture n. [probably after German Weltbild Weltbild n.] ΚΠ 1847 F. A. Kemble Year of Consol. I. 265 We, shut in within the limits of our span-short life, would have the great world-picture complete before us. 1912 W. James Ess. Radical Empiricism i. 8 Experience, at this rate, would be much like a paint of which the world pictures were made. 1981 N. Tucker Child & Bk. iv. 108 In Enid Blyton's work, this excessively simple world picture is carried to extremes. 2006 J. Updike Terrorist iv. 199 ‘Where does the money come from’? Ahmad asks, when Charlie's words—not so different, after all, from the world-picture that Shaikh Rashid more silkily paints—have run their course. < as lemmas |
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