| 释义 |
eyesight|ˈaɪsaɪt|
[f. eye n.1 + sight.]
1. The power or faculty of seeing; sight: attributed also to the heart, soul, etc.
c1200Ormin 1867 Þatt Drihhtin shollde ȝifenn uss God sawless eȝhesihhþe. a1300Cursor M. 25470 (Cott.) Ert clene and eien sight. a1400Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 44 Whantynge of eyesight in peyn doth me bynde. 1401Pol. Poems (1859) II. 98 But him was ȝovun iȝe-siȝt, for al his grete noise. 1587Golding De Mornay xiv. 207 The eysight is still good. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. (ed. 2) 420 The Basilisk and Eagle cannot match his eye-sight. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Juice, It..strengthens the Eye⁓sight. 1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 330 These organs..manifest themselves to..the eye-sight. 1873Bain in B. Stewart Conserv. Force viii. 231 A miser has to pay a high fee to the surgeon that saves his eyesight.
fig.1784Cowper Task v. 452 [It] blinds The eyesight of Discov'ry. 1849Robertson Sermons Ser. i. x. 167 To our blinded eyesight it seems a cruel will. 1857Willmott Pleas. Lit. xx. 111 The only eye-sight employed is the critical.
†2. The action or fact of seeing or looking; the use of the eyes, look, gaze, observation, view; an instance of this, a look. to set good eyesight on: to look hard at. Obs. exc. in by, from, in (a person's) eyesight.
a1240Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 209 Mine sunnen..beoð..grisliche in þine eih sihðe. a1300Signs bef. Judgem. 143 in E.E.P. (1862) 11 For sinful man-is ein siȝt ne let us neuer ben ischend. a1300Cursor M. 4300 (Cott.) Quilum allan wit an ei sight. 1526Tindale Luke xxii. 56 Won off the wenches..sett goode eyesight on hym. 1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xxii. 25 So shal y⊇ Lorde rewarde me..acordinge to the clenes of my handes in his eye sighte. 1573Golding Calvin on Job 76 Then must wee consider euen by eye sight, that our lyfe..slydeth away from us. 1641Wilkins Math. Magick i. xix. (1648) 135 That in Josephus which he sets down from his own eye-sight. 1839Carlyle Chartism iv. (1858) 20 Things..known to us by the best evidence, by eye⁓sight. 1873Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 6 His comparisons..are drawn from actual eye-sight.
3. The range of the eye, sight, view.
a1225Juliana 30 And het swiðe don hire ut of his ehsihðe. a1240Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 187 Ich ne mai ne ne dear cum lufsum god in þin ehsihþe. c1400Rom. Rose 7236 He wole not..have God in his iye sight. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 608 That profered you golde and fe, Out of myne eye-syght for to be. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 239 His tongue all impatient to speake and not see Did stumble with haste in his eie-sight to be. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 86 The minde contemplating heaven, walkes beyond eye-sight.
Hence † eye-sighted a., gifted with eye-sight.
1651Fuller's Abel Rediv., Bucer (1867) 154 The most judicious and best eye-sighted fryers. |