| 单词 | fool's fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfool's fire fool's fire n. (a) a phosphorescent light seen hovering or floating over marshy ground or a body of water; an ignis fatuus or will-o'-the-wisp; (b) (figurative and in figurative contexts) a guiding principle, hope, or aim that deludes or misleads.Cf. foolish fire n. at foolish adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > will-o'-the-wisp fox-fire1483 foolish fire1563 ignis fatuus1563 fool's fire1583 Kit with the canstick or candlestick1584 going fire1596 will-o'-the-wisp1596 meteor1597 firedrake1607 wisp1618 ambulones1621 Dick-a-Tuesday1636 friar's lantern1645 gillian burnt-tail1654 Jill-burnt-tail1654 Jack-o'-lantern1658 fatuous fire1661 wildfire1663 wandering fire or light1667 Jack-a-Lent1680 fairy light1722 spunkie1727 Jill-o'-the-wisp1750 fen-fire1814 fatuus1820 marsh-light1823 feu follet1832 wisp-lighta1847 hob-lantern1847 ghost light1849 elf-fire1855 Peggy-with-her-lantern1855 fatuous light1857–8 marsh-fire1865 swamp fire1903 Min-Min1950 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > ignis fatuus foolish fire1563 ignis fatuus1563 fool's fire1583 will-o'-the-wisp1596 night-fire1633 Dick-a-Tuesday1636 fatuous vapour1661 fatuus1668 draco volans1675 spunkie1727 fen-fire1814 fatuous fire1845 fatuous light1857–8 1583 J. Stockwood tr. J. von Ewich Duetie Magistrate in Time of Plague ii. v. f. 86 Ye rouing and wandring fire (which some call fooles fire..) the which is wont to folow or go before such as trauel in ye night. 1615 S. Ward Coal from Altar 16 Blind zeale, smoakie fire, or fooles fire, ignis fatuus..knowledge and discretion, takes wrong waies. 1696 T. Robinson Treat. Meteorol. v. in New Observ. Nat. Hist. 191 This Meteor they call Will with Wisp, or Ignis Fatuus, or Fool's Fire. 1844 H. W. Beecher Seven Lect. to Young Men 82 When it [sc. wit] sets up to be your counsellor or your guide, it is the fool's fire, flitting irregularly and leading you into the quag or morass. 1934 Sci. News Let. 15 Dec. 379/2 Oozing out of the wet muck of swamps and meeting the oxygen of the air, it [sc. methane] dances as the flickering flames known variously as ‘will-o'-the-wisp’, Jack-o'-lantern, and ignis fatuus or ‘fools' fire’. 1983 Proc. Amer. Soc. Internat. Law 77 52 An attachment to a trendy, faddish monetarism which has now been, in effect, abandoned by the Federal Reserve as the fool's fire that it was. < as lemmas |
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