英语词汇“eyes drop millstones”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†P2. (his) eyes drop millstones and variants [perhaps suggested by the hyperbolical phrase in quot. c1460] : he (etc.) is hard-hearted, unlikely to weep sincerely. Cf. sense 2c. Obsolete.

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c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. 35 Teris..As grete as eny mylstone.]

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 351 Your eies drop milstones when fooles [printed fooIes] eies drop tears.

?1606 Tragedie of Cæsar & Pompey ii. iv. sig. C 3 Mens eyes must mil-stones drop, when fooles shed teares.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. ii. 140 Queene Hecuba laught that her eyes ran ore. Cres. With milstones.

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iv. iii. 58 Fortune. He, good gentleman, Will weep when he hears how we are us'd. 1 Serjeant. Yes milstones.

单词	eyes drop millstones
释义	> as lemmas (his) eyes drop millstones †P2. (his) eyes drop millstones and variants [perhaps suggested by the hyperbolical phrase in quot. c1460] : he (etc.) is hard-hearted, unlikely to weep sincerely. Cf. sense 2c. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. 35 Teris..As grete as eny mylstone.] 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 351 Your eies drop milstones when fooles [printed fooIes] eies drop tears. View more context for this quotation ?1606 Tragedie of Cæsar & Pompey ii. iv. sig. C 3 Mens eyes must mil-stones drop, when fooles shed teares. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. ii. 140 Queene Hecuba laught that her eyes ran ore. Cres. With milstones. View more context for this quotation a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iv. iii. 58 Fortune. He, good gentleman, Will weep when he hears how we are us'd. 1 Serjeant. Yes milstones. extracted from millstonen. < as lemmas
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