英语词汇“call no man happy till he dies”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. call no man happy till he dies and variants: one cannot be considered to be completely happy or fortunate until one's entire life has passed without unhappiness, grief, etc. [Originally and frequently with reference to the story of the Athenian statesman Solon and Croesus, king of Lydia (Herodotus 1. 29-33); compare quots. 1539, 1545, 1716. Compare also ancient Greek μηδέν᾽ ὀλβίζειν, πρῖν ἂν τέρμα τοῦ βίου περάσῃ μηδὲν ἀλγεινὸν παθών ‘consider no man happy, until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief’ (Sophocles Oedipus Rex 1529), classical Latin dicique beatus ante obitum nemo..debet ‘nobody should be called blessed before his death’ (Ovid Metamorphoses 3. 136).]

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1539 R. Taverner Second Bk. Garden of Wysdome sig. D. vii But to this, aunswered Solon,..No man in the world o kynge Cresus is so happy and fortunate in this lief, y^t he can be called throughly & in euery parte blessed, afore he dye.]

1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) f. liii^v Solon aunswered kynge Cresus, that no man coulde be named happy, tyl he had happely and prosperouslye passed the course of his lyfe.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xviii. 28 We must exspect of man the latest day, Nor e'er he die, he's happy, can we say.

1689 W. Sherlock Pract. Disc. Death iii. 274 What is said upon another account, that we must call no Man happy before death, is true in this sence; no Man is a Conqueror, but he who dies so.

1716 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected I. iii. 118 But on his discourse with him Solon plainly told him, that he could pronounce no man happy, as long as he lived, because no one could foresee what might happen unto him before his death.

1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 53 A sober heart Is the best gift of God; call no man happy Till death hath found him prosperous to the close.

1881 Bristol Mercury 20 Apr. 5/3 If one may call no man happy until his death, one certainly can judge of no man's career aright until we can disengage it from the atmosphere of party feeling.

1957 H. Levin Contexts of Crit. 25 ‘Call no man happy until he is dead’, the tragic axiom, is not truer nor more false than the comic generalization, ‘All's well that ends well’.

2002 New Republic (Nexis) 23 Dec. 27 These interpolations seem oddly appropriate to the action, and so does the way the songs combine classical proverbialisms with modern sentiments (‘Call no man happy until he dies/ There's no milk at the bottom of the pail’).

单词	call no man happy till he dies
释义	> as lemmas call no man happy till he dies P2. call no man happy till he dies and variants: one cannot be considered to be completely happy or fortunate until one's entire life has passed without unhappiness, grief, etc. [Originally and frequently with reference to the story of the Athenian statesman Solon and Croesus, king of Lydia (Herodotus 1. 29-33); compare quots. 1539, 1545, 1716. Compare also ancient Greek μηδέν᾽ ὀλβίζειν, πρῖν ἂν τέρμα τοῦ βίου περάσῃ μηδὲν ἀλγεινὸν παθών ‘consider no man happy, until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief’ (Sophocles Oedipus Rex 1529), classical Latin dicique beatus ante obitum nemo..debet ‘nobody should be called blessed before his death’ (Ovid Metamorphoses 3. 136).] ΚΠ 1539 R. Taverner Second Bk. Garden of Wysdome sig. D. vii But to this, aunswered Solon,..No man in the world o kynge Cresus is so happy and fortunate in this lief, y^t he can be called throughly & in euery parte blessed, afore he dye.] 1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) f. liii^v Solon aunswered kynge Cresus, that no man coulde be named happy, tyl he had happely and prosperouslye passed the course of his lyfe. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xviii. 28 We must exspect of man the latest day, Nor e'er he die, he's happy, can we say. 1689 W. Sherlock Pract. Disc. Death iii. 274 What is said upon another account, that we must call no Man happy before death, is true in this sence; no Man is a Conqueror, but he who dies so. 1716 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected I. iii. 118 But on his discourse with him Solon plainly told him, that he could pronounce no man happy, as long as he lived, because no one could foresee what might happen unto him before his death. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 53 A sober heart Is the best gift of God; call no man happy Till death hath found him prosperous to the close. 1881 Bristol Mercury 20 Apr. 5/3 If one may call no man happy until his death, one certainly can judge of no man's career aright until we can disengage it from the atmosphere of party feeling. 1957 H. Levin Contexts of Crit. 25 ‘Call no man happy until he is dead’, the tragic axiom, is not truer nor more false than the comic generalization, ‘All's well that ends well’. 2002 New Republic (Nexis) 23 Dec. 27 These interpolations seem oddly appropriate to the action, and so does the way the songs combine classical proverbialisms with modern sentiments (‘Call no man happy until he dies/ There's no milk at the bottom of the pail’). extracted from happyadj.n. < as lemmas
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