| 单词 | all roads lead to rome |
| 释义 | > as lemmasall roads lead to Rome d. all roads lead to Rome (and variants): there are many different ways of reaching the same goal or conclusion. [Probably ultimately after post-classical Latin Mille viae ducunt homines per saecula Romam (12th cent. in Alanus ab Insulis Liber parabolarum). Compare Italian si va per più vie a Roma (a1589; a1484 as †vassi pure a Roma per più strade , 1585 as †si va per tante strade a Roma ), French tous chemins vont à Rome (1694 in the passage translated in quot. 1806).] ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [phrase] > proverb all roads lead to Rome1795 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 36 Euery wyght whiche that to rome went Halt nat al o path or alwey o manere. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 2 Ryht as diuerse pathes leden diuerse folk the rihte wey to Roome.] 1795 tr. M. Ehrenstrom Let. 15 Mar. 1793 in tr. Baron Armfelt Corr. xlvii. 67 This difference in the choice of our means ought not to stop our career. All roads lead to Rome. 1806 R. Thomson tr. J. de La Fontaine Fables IV. xii. xxiv. 110 Three diff'rent roads the three concurrents chose, All roads alike conduct to Rome [Fr. Tous chemins vont à Rome]. 1837 Morning Chron. 29 Mar. The Tories act in the spirit of the old adage, ‘All roads lead to Rome.’ 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. xxiv. 270 All roads take to Rome. 1911 J. A. Thomson Introd. Sci. iii. 63 All roads lead to Rome, and he must be a bold man who will declare any of Nature's beckonings to be unworthy of attention. 1922 I. Fisher Making of Index Numbers xii. 266 All the roads lead to Rome,—whether the roads be the arithmetic, the harmonic, the geometric, or the aggregative. 2007 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 18 May (Features section) 4 I'm still discovering my art, but all roads lead to Rome. I was always going to end up finding certain conclusions. < as lemmas |
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