英语词汇“devil upon two sticks”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. devil on two sticks (also devil upon two sticks). [The expression was apparently popularized by its use as the title of several literary and dramatic productions in English, in some cases based on or alluding to L. Vélez de Guevara's Spanish satirical novel El Diablo cojuelo (1641) and also the French work based on it, A. R. Le Sage Le Diable boiteux (1707), both lit. ‘The Lame Devil’. Le Sage's work was translated into English as The Devil upon Two Sticks (1708).]

(a) Mischief, trouble, foul play, esp. when concealed; a person embodying this.Some early examples may allude to the toy described in sense Phrases 5b(b), although the evidence for this appears to be later.

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1680 M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras'd 2 You us'd a thousand wanton tricks, And play'd the Devil on two sticks.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xxxvi. 141 I smell a Rat, there will be here the Devil upon two sticks, or I am much out.

1701 Dissertator in Burlesque 42 After all in Ninety Six, You Play'd the Devil on two Sticks; and when your Comrades Tyburn Snap't, But very Narrowly you Scap't.

1830 Catal. Part of W. Tassie's Coll.: Devices & Emblems 133 Cupid..playing at the Devil on two sticks, with two hearts. ‘Je me fais un jeu d'agiter les Cœurs.’ I amuse myself by agitating hearts.

1836 Swan River (Perth) Guardian 20 Oct. 12/1 The Devil on two sticks hopped in at the window, unobserved, and reported to us that a profound lawyer mumbled out ‘give them rope enough.’

1853 B. Webster Belphegor 9 The same Fishy that used to peep into first-floors for halfpence—a little devil on two sticks?

1982 R. Davies High Spirits xiii. 131 We are quite accustomed to distinguished visitors here, but the Never-Too-Highly-To-Be Esteemed Asmodeus, the Devil on Two Sticks himself, is a catch even for us.

1995 Threepenny Rev. Spring 13/4 He [sc. the picaresque hero] is the devil on two sticks, the spirit of anarchy which resides in everyone.

(b) A toy in the form of a two-headed top (resembling an hourglass in shape), which is made to spin in the air by means of a string attached to two sticks held in the hands. Cf. diabolo n.

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1840 Dr. Joy in A. Tweedie Syst. Pract. Med. III. 264 To a singular variety of the bellows-murmur, of a remittent booming or whirring character, occasionally heard in chlorotic and nervous subjects..M. Bouillaud has given the fantastical name of ‘bruit de diable,’ from its similarity to the noise produced by the well-known French toy resembling a double humming top, called the ‘devil on two sticks’.

1844 ‘Ananke’ Story without Name viii. 78 Bands of noisy wind instruments, turkish chiropodists, monkies ‘a horseback’, dancing bears, girls, dogs, devils on two sticks, punches, merry andrews, whirligigs round.

1855 B. Peirce Physical & Celest. Mech. xii. 453 A convenient type of this class of motion may be found in the familiar toy called the devil on two sticks.

1937 Adelaide Chron. 26 Aug. 49/1 The next big craze was Diabolo, or Devil-on-two-sticks.

2006 Toronto Star (Nexis) 6 July g12 It's based around the diabolo, a toy evolved from the yo-yo over 4,000 years ago and referred to as ‘the devil on two sticks’.

单词	devil upon two sticks
释义	> as lemmas devil upon two sticks b. devil on two sticks (also devil upon two sticks). [The expression was apparently popularized by its use as the title of several literary and dramatic productions in English, in some cases based on or alluding to L. Vélez de Guevara's Spanish satirical novel El Diablo cojuelo (1641) and also the French work based on it, A. R. Le Sage Le Diable boiteux (1707), both lit. ‘The Lame Devil’. Le Sage's work was translated into English as The Devil upon Two Sticks (1708).] (a) Mischief, trouble, foul play, esp. when concealed; a person embodying this.Some early examples may allude to the toy described in sense Phrases 5b(b), although the evidence for this appears to be later. ΚΠ 1680 M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras'd 2 You us'd a thousand wanton tricks, And play'd the Devil on two sticks. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xxxvi. 141 I smell a Rat, there will be here the Devil upon two sticks, or I am much out. 1701 Dissertator in Burlesque 42 After all in Ninety Six, You Play'd the Devil on two Sticks; and when your Comrades Tyburn Snap't, But very Narrowly you Scap't. 1830 Catal. Part of W. Tassie's Coll.: Devices & Emblems 133 Cupid..playing at the Devil on two sticks, with two hearts. ‘Je me fais un jeu d'agiter les Cœurs.’ I amuse myself by agitating hearts. 1836 Swan River (Perth) Guardian 20 Oct. 12/1 The Devil on two sticks hopped in at the window, unobserved, and reported to us that a profound lawyer mumbled out ‘give them rope enough.’ 1853 B. Webster Belphegor 9 The same Fishy that used to peep into first-floors for halfpence—a little devil on two sticks? 1982 R. Davies High Spirits xiii. 131 We are quite accustomed to distinguished visitors here, but the Never-Too-Highly-To-Be Esteemed Asmodeus, the Devil on Two Sticks himself, is a catch even for us. 1995 Threepenny Rev. Spring 13/4 He [sc. the picaresque hero] is the devil on two sticks, the spirit of anarchy which resides in everyone. (b) A toy in the form of a two-headed top (resembling an hourglass in shape), which is made to spin in the air by means of a string attached to two sticks held in the hands. Cf. diabolo n. ΚΠ 1840 Dr. Joy in A. Tweedie Syst. Pract. Med. III. 264 To a singular variety of the bellows-murmur, of a remittent booming or whirring character, occasionally heard in chlorotic and nervous subjects..M. Bouillaud has given the fantastical name of ‘bruit de diable,’ from its similarity to the noise produced by the well-known French toy resembling a double humming top, called the ‘devil on two sticks’. 1844 ‘Ananke’ Story without Name viii. 78 Bands of noisy wind instruments, turkish chiropodists, monkies ‘a horseback’, dancing bears, girls, dogs, devils on two sticks, punches, merry andrews, whirligigs round. 1855 B. Peirce Physical & Celest. Mech. xii. 453 A convenient type of this class of motion may be found in the familiar toy called the devil on two sticks. 1937 Adelaide Chron. 26 Aug. 49/1 The next big craze was Diabolo, or Devil-on-two-sticks. 2006 Toronto Star (Nexis) 6 July g12 It's based around the diabolo, a toy evolved from the yo-yo over 4,000 years ago and referred to as ‘the devil on two sticks’. extracted from deviln. < as lemmas
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