| 单词 | as white as a swan |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas white as a swan P1. In similative and comparative phrases, sometimes hyperbolical, and frequently with connotations of purity, esp. as white as (or whiter than) snow, milk (cf. snow-white adj. and n., milk-white adj. and n.), as white as lily flower, as white as glass, as white as a swan (cf. swan-white adj.), as white as whale's bone, as white as flour, as white as a neep, as white as wool, as white as curds, and (in sense A. 4) as white as a cloth, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost. ΚΠ OE St. Mary of Egypt (Julius) (2002) 72 Þa loccas hire heafdes wæron swa hwite swa wull [L. ut lana albos]. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 2 Hys reaf wæron swa hwite swa snaw [L. alba sicut nix]. OE tr. Wonders of East (Tiber.) §21. 196 Beoð þa earan swiðe leohte & hi beoð an lichoman swa hwite swa meolc [L. quasi lacteo]. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 83 (MED) Ðanne wurð ic iclansed of alle mine sennes, and hwittere ðane ani snaw. c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 15 (MED) He was whit so þe flur [a1350 Harl. so whit so eny lylye flour]. c1300 St. Faith (Laud) 80 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 85 (MED) A coluere þare cam, so ȝwijt so milk. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10380 Ten lambes, quitte als milk. a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) 78 (MED) Þe thrid maister was litel man Faire of chere and white als swan. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 2081 (MED) Scheo hadde a mayden childe: Sabren hit highte, as whit as glas. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 232 Hawbrekis, that war quhit as flour. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2395 in Poems (1981) 89 Quhyte as ane neip and round als as ane seill. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 185 A saill als quhite as blossum vpon spray. 1512–13 Syr Degore (de Worde) sig. A The kynge had..A doughter as whyte as whalles bone. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 63 Giff thay be reid as purpur neuertheles yai sal be quhit as wow. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A3v Vpon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter. 1651 C. Gerbier Elogium Heroinum 75 Their Necks as white as Snow, their Breast as pure as Allabaster. 1727 J. Gay New Song Similes in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. 210 As smooth as Glass, as white as Curds. 1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting i. ii. 46 She..looks as white as a cloth. 1837 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 48 118 The whole surface of the body was covered with very minute scales as white as flour, so that the patient was named the white man, ‘hvita man’. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iv. 63 I am as white as driven snow compared to some blackguards. 1897 H. Caine Christian iii. xii. 311 The man..turned white as a ghost. 1923 Humorist 29 Sept. 228/1 There he was leaning against the mantelpiece, as white as a sheet. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Dec. b1 I went in the bathroom and I started crying and then I looked in the mirror and I was white as a ghost. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Oct. d8/5 A coiling flower, as white as porcelain, wound on a vine around a black urn. < as lemmas |
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