| 单词 | in little |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin little f. in little: on a small scale; in a small space; (originally Painting) in miniature. Now literary. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [phrase] > on a small scale in little1604 in parvo1676 in miniature1700 in small1765 in pettoa1846 small-scale1852 in diminutive- society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [adverb] > in miniature in little1604 in small1611 in miniature1700 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 367 [They] giue twenty, fortie, fifty, an hundred duckets a peece, for his Picture in little. 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3 On his visage was in little drawne, What largenesse thinkes in parradise was sawne. 1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 7 I shall endeavour to limme her soule in little (since in great neither my time, nor ability will let me). 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 105 The Temple was an imitation in little of that at Ephesus. 1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. Pref. 61 This autority was at first exercised in little by those, who [etc.]. 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. iii. 100 Sir Kenelm Digby..compares Vandyck and Hoskins, and says the latter pleased the most, by painting in little. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 19 A miniature of loveliness, all grace Summ'd up and closed in little. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 137 By Boulevard friendships tempted to come taste How Paris lived again in little there. 1953 K. M. Briggs Personnel of Fairyland Gloss. 205 The glaistig..is a spirit of mixed characteristics, and seems, indeed, to be all fairies in little. 1974 Country Life 28 Nov. 1675/2 Sculptures in little. 2010 D. Noyes Captivity ii. xl. 286 A glittering tray of tiny crystal figures, nymphs and unicorns. (The world in little has grown large of late..). < as lemmas |
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