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

c. by the ears (also ear).

†(a) to lead by the ears: to exercise complete control over, esp. through artful speech. Obsolete.

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?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. A.iii Seynge the people thus ledde by the ere.

a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens sig. e.iii It wolde be com them well..not you to tary For theyr laysyr and abyde them here As it were one that were ledde by the eare.

1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. 46 Lest it might be thought that with Oratorical Harangues that he or they led Men by the Ears, as an implicit faith is said to lead them by the Nose.

1702 J. Drake Some Necessary Considerations relating to Elections 9 The crafty Priest, that had the best knack of leading the Mob by the Ears.

1884 M. Hickson Ireland in 17th Cent. I. Introd. 9 The chiefs..led the ignorant credulous masses by the ears after them.

(b) to have (also hold, take) by the ears: to keep or obtain a secure hold upon (a person or animal). Now chiefly figurative: to hold the attention of with captivating or incessant talk.Recorded earliest in to have or hold a wolf by the ears at wolf n. 10c.

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1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike f. 26 Paroemia, a saying much vsed..as, I holde the woulfe by the eares.

1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes i. iv, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 12 You cracke halter, if I catche you by the eares, I shall make you answere me directly.

1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. E^v Eager to catch him, as a dogge to take a beare by the eares in Parrish-garden.

1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. iv. 44 Shall I strike that Captaine? say the word, Ile have him by the eares.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 84 Which Countryes,..the Spaniard holds as a woulfe by the eare, fearing they should run away.

1726 H. Wanley Diary 16 Apr. (1966) II. 412 Mr. Noel came..and held me by the Ears, with his ratteling talk.

1781 W. Cowper Let. 5 Mar. (1979) I. 455 One would wish at first setting out to catch the public by the Ear and hold them by it as fast as possible.

1866 Galaxy 15 Aug. 737 Mr. Illersly..came back to the Island Lodge, and had Brompton Corners by the ears.

1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 32/1 McAdoo, it was universally conceded, had the convention by the ear.

1941 J. Rice Diary 23 July in Sand in my Shoes (2006) 154 I pretty well had them by the ears and could get what I wanted out of them.

1949 D. Thomas Let. 11 Oct. (1987) 718 I am tangled in hack-work. Depression has me by the ears.

1991 New Yorker 11 Mar. 34/2 She who took tedium by the ears: non-forthcoming pickles, defiant-stretched-out lettuce, sauce-gooed particles.

(c) to pull (also drag, draw, pluck, etc.) by the ears: to convey or extract violently and roughly (sometimes literally by the ears). to pull a person by the ear [perhaps partly after classical Latin aurem vellere] : figurative to compel a person's attention (obsolete).

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1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 961/2 Bertram was the fyrste that pulled me by the eare, and that fyrste brought me from that common errour of the Romishe churche.

1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catechisme f. 3 v Such is our dulnesse and forgetfulnesse, that we must oft be taught and put in remembrance,..and as it were pulled by the eare [L. quasi auribus vellicandi].

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 154^v To make them fyerce and curst, you must plucke them by the eares [L. auribus vellendi].

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie sig. I3^v For Poesie, must not be drawne by the eares, it must bee, gently led.

1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. C^v They have all vowed to hale thee out of thy trenches by the head and eares.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. 592 They would go home to their very houses, and pluck them out by the eares [L. et in publicum omnes vi extracturos esse].

1636 T. Heywood Loves Maistresse iv. i Venus will sole mee by the eares for this.

1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ at Sowl To Sowl one by the ears, vox agro Linc. usitatissima (i.e.) aures summâ vi vellere.

1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 393 Then Jove said [to Olympus], Thou Vbiquitary God, shoot thy self into the World, and in a trice drag Fortune hither by the Ears.

1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket iii. vii. 75 Go you, pull him out by the ears.

1925 S. Lewis Martin Arrowsmith vi. 63 She's an old terror. If she found a child like you wandering around here she'd drag you out by the ear.

1991 S. Keen Fire in Belly v. xiv. 221 I pulled up the offending youngsters by the ears.

(d) to be (also come, go, fall) by the ears: to be at variance, fall out; to fight. Frequently with together. Now rare.Earliest in to fall together by the ears at fall v. Phrasal verbs 1.

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1531 Bp. W. Barlow Dyaloge Lutheran Faccyons sig. i.3^v Then was it a wonder to se what murmuracyon, grudge, and rumour of sedycyon was amonge the people, not without lykelyhed of fallynge togyther by the eares & insurreccyon agaynste theyr prynce.

1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes f. xxij The apes..skambled and went together by y^e eares for the nuttes.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lvi. 18 I thought they wold all haue gone by thears theare.

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 280/1 When we be together by the eares like dogs and cattes.

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia v. sig. D7^v By and by Thei'le be by the eares, vie stabs, exchange disgraces.

1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Replie to Libel i. 32 We must needes fall by the eares together.

1653 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 6 The other took his advertisement so ill that they were like to have fallen by the ears yester.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 73 They would go together by the Ears, about who should go with you.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. xviii. 353 In one place, we fight for a sword; in another, for a horse..in short, we are all by the ears together.

1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 282 I saw clearly that France and England would at length get by the ears.

1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st Ser. xviii. 180 Take any two men that are by the ears, they opinionate all they hear of each other..and misconstrue every act.

1927 M. de la Roche Jalna xx. 266 Imagine the entire family by the ears because of a kid's music lessons!

(e) to set by the ears: to put at variance. Formerly frequently with together.

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society > society and the community > dissent > become at variance with [verb (transitive)] > cause (dissension) > set (people) at variance

to-bear971

to cast (in) a bone1498

to set (or fall) at variancec1522

to set by the ears?1566

distract1597

to set outa1610

jarc1615

dissentiate1628

vary1795

?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce 64 Doe they use Bartolus, and Baldus, and such other spill causes to set men togither by the eares?

1645 T. Juxon Jrnl. 18 June (1999) (modernized text) 80 Besides, 'twould have set all together by the'ears at homes [sic] and brought the parliament trouble enough.

1650 A. B. Mutatus Polemo 8 Set the Cavaleer and Presbyter together by the ears.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 1 When hard words..Set Folks together by the ears, And made them fight.

1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners i. 306 To set the Town together by the Ears.

1787 B. Franklin Let. 19 Apr. in T. Jefferson Papers (1955) XI. 301 Perpetually endeavouring to set us together by the Ears about Taxes.

1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 40 Does it [Turkey] fancy that it will obtain security for itself by setting Greek and Bulgarian by the ears?

1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xiii. 94 John Walter..set all the printers in London by the ears with his whim about logographic printing.

1953 M. Irwin Elizabeth & Prince of Spain 34 Parsons' wives, pert and prim, fat and slim, messing up their husband's work, meddling with the parish, setting it all by the ears.

2003 A. Groves Ellie Pride xxxix. 508 Run off with one of the Connolly lads, she has, and set the whole town by the ears, no mistake!

单词	by the ears
释义	> as lemmas by the ears (also ear) c. by the ears (also ear). †(a) to lead by the ears: to exercise complete control over, esp. through artful speech. Obsolete. ΚΠ ?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. A.iii Seynge the people thus ledde by the ere. a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens sig. e.iii It wolde be com them well..not you to tary For theyr laysyr and abyde them here As it were one that were ledde by the eare. 1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. 46 Lest it might be thought that with Oratorical Harangues that he or they led Men by the Ears, as an implicit faith is said to lead them by the Nose. 1702 J. Drake Some Necessary Considerations relating to Elections 9 The crafty Priest, that had the best knack of leading the Mob by the Ears. 1884 M. Hickson Ireland in 17th Cent. I. Introd. 9 The chiefs..led the ignorant credulous masses by the ears after them. (b) to have (also hold, take) by the ears: to keep or obtain a secure hold upon (a person or animal). Now chiefly figurative: to hold the attention of with captivating or incessant talk.Recorded earliest in to have or hold a wolf by the ears at wolf n. 10c. ΚΠ 1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike f. 26 Paroemia, a saying much vsed..as, I holde the woulfe by the eares. 1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes i. iv, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 12 You cracke halter, if I catche you by the eares, I shall make you answere me directly. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. E^v Eager to catch him, as a dogge to take a beare by the eares in Parrish-garden. 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. iv. 44 Shall I strike that Captaine? say the word, Ile have him by the eares. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 84 Which Countryes,..the Spaniard holds as a woulfe by the eare, fearing they should run away. 1726 H. Wanley Diary 16 Apr. (1966) II. 412 Mr. Noel came..and held me by the Ears, with his ratteling talk. 1781 W. Cowper Let. 5 Mar. (1979) I. 455 One would wish at first setting out to catch the public by the Ear and hold them by it as fast as possible. 1866 Galaxy 15 Aug. 737 Mr. Illersly..came back to the Island Lodge, and had Brompton Corners by the ears. 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 32/1 McAdoo, it was universally conceded, had the convention by the ear. 1941 J. Rice Diary 23 July in Sand in my Shoes (2006) 154 I pretty well had them by the ears and could get what I wanted out of them. 1949 D. Thomas Let. 11 Oct. (1987) 718 I am tangled in hack-work. Depression has me by the ears. 1991 New Yorker 11 Mar. 34/2 She who took tedium by the ears: non-forthcoming pickles, defiant-stretched-out lettuce, sauce-gooed particles. (c) to pull (also drag, draw, pluck, etc.) by the ears: to convey or extract violently and roughly (sometimes literally by the ears). to pull a person by the ear [perhaps partly after classical Latin aurem vellere] : figurative to compel a person's attention (obsolete). ΚΠ 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 961/2 Bertram was the fyrste that pulled me by the eare, and that fyrste brought me from that common errour of the Romishe churche. 1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catechisme f. 3 v Such is our dulnesse and forgetfulnesse, that we must oft be taught and put in remembrance,..and as it were pulled by the eare [L. quasi auribus vellicandi]. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 154^v To make them fyerce and curst, you must plucke them by the eares [L. auribus vellendi]. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie sig. I3^v For Poesie, must not be drawne by the eares, it must bee, gently led. 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. C^v They have all vowed to hale thee out of thy trenches by the head and eares. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. 592 They would go home to their very houses, and pluck them out by the eares [L. et in publicum omnes vi extracturos esse]. 1636 T. Heywood Loves Maistresse iv. i Venus will sole mee by the eares for this. 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ at Sowl To Sowl one by the ears, vox agro Linc. usitatissima (i.e.) aures summâ vi vellere. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 393 Then Jove said [to Olympus], Thou Vbiquitary God, shoot thy self into the World, and in a trice drag Fortune hither by the Ears. 1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket iii. vii. 75 Go you, pull him out by the ears. 1925 S. Lewis Martin Arrowsmith vi. 63 She's an old terror. If she found a child like you wandering around here she'd drag you out by the ear. 1991 S. Keen Fire in Belly v. xiv. 221 I pulled up the offending youngsters by the ears. (d) to be (also come, go, fall) by the ears: to be at variance, fall out; to fight. Frequently with together. Now rare.Earliest in to fall together by the ears at fall v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1531 Bp. W. Barlow Dyaloge Lutheran Faccyons sig. i.3^v Then was it a wonder to se what murmuracyon, grudge, and rumour of sedycyon was amonge the people, not without lykelyhed of fallynge togyther by the eares & insurreccyon agaynste theyr prynce. 1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes f. xxij The apes..skambled and went together by y^e eares for the nuttes. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lvi. 18 I thought they wold all haue gone by thears theare. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 280/1 When we be together by the eares like dogs and cattes. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia v. sig. D7^v By and by Thei'le be by the eares, vie stabs, exchange disgraces. 1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Replie to Libel i. 32 We must needes fall by the eares together. 1653 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 6 The other took his advertisement so ill that they were like to have fallen by the ears yester. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 73 They would go together by the Ears, about who should go with you. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. xviii. 353 In one place, we fight for a sword; in another, for a horse..in short, we are all by the ears together. 1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 282 I saw clearly that France and England would at length get by the ears. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st Ser. xviii. 180 Take any two men that are by the ears, they opinionate all they hear of each other..and misconstrue every act. 1927 M. de la Roche Jalna xx. 266 Imagine the entire family by the ears because of a kid's music lessons! (e) to set by the ears: to put at variance. Formerly frequently with together. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > become at variance with [verb (transitive)] > cause (dissension) > set (people) at variance to-bear971 to cast (in) a bone1498 to set (or fall) at variancec1522 to set by the ears?1566 distract1597 to set outa1610 jarc1615 dissentiate1628 vary1795 ?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce 64 Doe they use Bartolus, and Baldus, and such other spill causes to set men togither by the eares? 1645 T. Juxon Jrnl. 18 June (1999) (modernized text) 80 Besides, 'twould have set all together by the'ears at homes [sic] and brought the parliament trouble enough. 1650 A. B. Mutatus Polemo 8 Set the Cavaleer and Presbyter together by the ears. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 1 When hard words..Set Folks together by the ears, And made them fight. 1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners i. 306 To set the Town together by the Ears. 1787 B. Franklin Let. 19 Apr. in T. Jefferson Papers (1955) XI. 301 Perpetually endeavouring to set us together by the Ears about Taxes. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 40 Does it [Turkey] fancy that it will obtain security for itself by setting Greek and Bulgarian by the ears? 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xiii. 94 John Walter..set all the printers in London by the ears with his whim about logographic printing. 1953 M. Irwin Elizabeth & Prince of Spain 34 Parsons' wives, pert and prim, fat and slim, messing up their husband's work, meddling with the parish, setting it all by the ears. 2003 A. Groves Ellie Pride xxxix. 508 Run off with one of the Connolly lads, she has, and set the whole town by the ears, no mistake! extracted from earn.¹ < as lemmas
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