| 释义 |
spectacled, a.|ˈspɛktək(ə)ld|
[f. as prec.]
1. Provided with or wearing spectacles.
1607Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 221 All tongues speake of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him. 1624Middleton Game at Chess ii. i, When the Inquisitors came all spectacled To pick out syllables. 1779Mirror No. 8, Those grave personages, whom you may observe daily..rising in a coffee-house in the full dignity of a spectacled nose. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. vi, Half-scared by the..spectacled old lady, by whom these tempting stores are watched. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xxix. 175, ‘I think it will be a fine day,’ he said,..turning his spectacled face up to the clouds. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 215 A couple of spectacled professional gentlemen.
b. With distinguishing adjs.
1884G. Allen Philistia I. 12 There was honesty..in those hazy blue-spectacled eyes. 1896Idler Mar. 247/2 This innocent-looking little gold-spectacled bald-headed gentleman.
2. In names of birds, animals, etc., having spectacle-shaped markings or the appearance of wearing spectacles (see quots. and spectacle n.1 9 b).
1831Griffith tr. Cuvier IX. Syn. 21 *Spectacled Alligator, Crocodilus (Alligator) Sclerops.
1835Penny Cycl. IV. 87 The *Spectacled Bear, Ursus Ornatus of F. Cuvier, inhabits the Cordilleras of the Andes in Chili. 1894Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. II. 23 The spectacled bear of the Peruvian Andes..is a small-sized black species.
1830Griffith tr. Cuvier XI. 188 The *Spectacled Cayman (Crocodilus Sclerops) is the most common in Cayenne.
1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 197 They sustain a fold of integument, peculiarly coloured in some species— e.g., the *spectacled cobra. c1880Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 304 The natives say that the Spectacled Cobra is a Snake of the city or town.
1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 292 *Spectacled Eider,..a whitish space round eye, bounded by black.
1884Ibid. 815 Uria carbo,..*Spectacled Guillemot.
1896Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. V. 298 The little *spectacled salamander (Salamandrina perspicillata) of Italy.
1831Griffith tr. Cuvier IX. 274 Named *Spectacled Serpent, from a black line drawn on the widened part of its disk in the form of spectacles. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. v. i. 259 The Naia or Spectacled Serpents—called also the Hooded Snakes.
1834Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXII. 397/1 The Snakemen [of India]..never use in their shows any other poisonous Snake than the *Spectacled Snake.
1871Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 262 Leaf-like organs, often of the most extraordinary forms (see the Head of the *Spectacled Vampire).
1829Griffith tr. Cuvier VI. 446 *Spectacled Warbler, Sylvia Conspicillata. 1894–5Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. III. 493 The spectacled warbler builds its nest in a small bush about a foot from the ground. |