| 释义 |
green-eyed, a.|griːnaɪd|
(Stress variable.)
[f. green a. + eye n. + -ed2; cf. eyed 1 b.]
Having green eyes. the green-eyed monster (in and after Shakespeare): jealousy. (Cf. green a. 3.) Hence fig. Viewing everything with jealousy.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. ii. 110 Shuddring feare, and greene-eyed ielousie. 1604― Oth. iii. iii. 166 Oh, beware my Lord, of ielousie, It is the greene-ey'd Monster. 1627Milton Vac. Exerc. 43 How green-eyed Neptune raves. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 152 Well-featured, round-faced, flaxen-haired, green-eyed. c1800H. K. White Genius i. i, Green-eyed Grief, and dull Despair. 1804Sporting Mag. XXIII. 284 What he had uttered was under the influence of the ‘green-eyed monster’. 1854S. Dobell Balder xi. Poet. Wks. 1875 II. 57 Hellebore, like a girl-murderess, Green-eyed and sick with jealousy. 1883M. E. Braddon Phantom Fortune xxxviii, (1884) 335 Devoured by the gnawing of the green-eyed monster. |