| 单词 | dust and ashes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdust and ashes f. dust and ashes (in allusion to the legend of the Dead Sea Fruit): used to indicate severe disappointment or disillusionment. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun] mazec1300 discomfiturea1400 delusiona1513 disappointing1533 disappointment1577 disappoint1642 heart-scald1888 dust and ashes1902 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience vi. 143 Trustful self-abandonment to the joys that freely offer has entirely departed from both Epicurean and Stoic; and what each proposes is a way of rescue from the resultant dust-and-ashes state of mind. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson xxi. 310 But there was no spark of triumph now in her eyes; only a deep melancholy; and in her mouth a taste as of dust and ashes. 1930 A. Huxley Vulgarity in Lit. iii. 13 The spirit of the time..demands that we should ‘press with strenuous tongue against our palate’ not only joy's grape, but every Dead Sea fruit. Even dust and ashes must be relished. 1945 A. Huxley Let. 2 Apr. (1969) 518 The most wildly romantic adventures all turned into dust and ashes. < as lemmas |
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