| 单词 | half man, half beast |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf man, half beast d. half man, half beast, etc.: half human, half another animal. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [adjective] > of human hybrids half man, half beasteOE anguipede1878 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. ix. 28 Ealle þa æðelestan bearn þara Atheniensa hi genoman, & sealdon þæm Minotauro to etanne, þæt wæs healf mon, healf leo. OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 52 Onocentaurus, healf man and healf assa. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 667 Hit [sc. the mermaid] is half mon & half fisc [c1300 Otho Elf his wi[m]man elf fis]. a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 406 He hauen told of ðis mere ðat ðus uniemete, Half man & half fis, sum ðing tokneð bi ðis. c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 57 Poetis seide be ficcion that he was half man & half bull. a1665 J. Quarles tr. J. Cats Self-conflict (1680) 96 Half I am Beast, half Man; half black, half white; Deform'd and comely and half wrong, half right. 1808 R. Cumberland & J. B. Burges Exodiad v. 272 How debas'd and vile Those natures are, who can devise a form, Half man, half beast, modell'd of stone or brass, The work of their own hands, and call it god. 1906 H. D. Rawnsley Love Triumphant in Sonnet Chron. 22 He, the welcoming friend of great and least, Fell smitten by a man, half man half beast. 1951 Times 6 Dec. 5/7 He describes it [sc. a yeti] as half man half beast, about five feet six inches tall. < as lemmas |
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