| 释义 |
wildering, ppl. a.|ˈwɪldərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That ‘wilders’, in various senses.
1. Leading or driving one astray; esp. of a place: in which one loses or may lose one's way.
1749Shenstone Irreg. Ode 83 And some had bent the wild'ring maze. 1793Coleridge Lines Autumnal Even. 77 Toss'd by storms along Life's wild'ring way. 1804W. L. Bowles Spir. Discov. iv. 64 Safe in the wildering storm. 1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. vi. (1870) 126 Their wildering mazes of exquisite flowers.
b. fig. Producing mental confusion or aberration; perplexing, bewildering.
1742Collins Ecl. iv. 8 Where wild'ring fear and desperate sorrow led. 1812J. Wilson Isle of Palms i. 223 In waking thoughts she still retains The memory of these wildering pains. a1850Rossetti Dante & Circle i. (1874) 74 These 'wildering phantasies Then carried me to see my Lady dead. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 370 The clash Of rain-beat boughs and wildering lightning-flash.
2. Going astray, straying, wandering.
1827Keble Chr. Y., Sexagesima Sunday ii, Ruin below and wrath above Are all that now the wildering fancy meets. Ibid., 5th Sunday in Lent iv, Ye too, who tend Christ's wildering flock. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. i. iii, Lamps are gleaming, Through the festal's wildering train. |