英语词汇“lightening before death”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lightening before death: a sudden display of vitality, cheerfulness, etc., occurring just before death. Now rare.In extended use in quot. 2015.The phrase could perhaps alternatively be interpreted as showing lightening n.² and may sometimes have been understood as such. However, parallel use of ‘a glimmering before death’ in Fletcher's Spanish Curate iv. v. strongly suggests that the phrase originally had the sense of ‘brightness’ rather than ‘lack of heaviness’ and so belongs here.

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1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 90 How oft haue many at the houre of death Beene blith and pleasant? which their keepers call A lightning before death .

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew v. sig. N3 If it be a Lightning before Death, the best is, I am his Heire.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 517. ¶2 We were once in great Hopes of his Recovery..but this only proved a Light'ning before Death.

1785 H. Walpole Let. 17 Sept. in Corr. (1974) XXXIII. 501 I hope this revival of wit is not lightning before death.

2015 Plastic News (Nexis) 10 Aug. 8 China's scrap imports showed a slight rebound in 2014, but Xuan called it ‘a lightening before death.’

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释义	> as lemmas lightening before death lightening before death: a sudden display of vitality, cheerfulness, etc., occurring just before death. Now rare.In extended use in quot. 2015.The phrase could perhaps alternatively be interpreted as showing lightening n.² and may sometimes have been understood as such. However, parallel use of ‘a glimmering before death’ in Fletcher's Spanish Curate iv. v. strongly suggests that the phrase originally had the sense of ‘brightness’ rather than ‘lack of heaviness’ and so belongs here. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > point of > revival of spirits at lightening before death1597 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 90 How oft haue many at the houre of death Beene blith and pleasant? which their keepers call A lightning before death . View more context for this quotation 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew v. sig. N3 If it be a Lightning before Death, the best is, I am his Heire. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 517. ¶2 We were once in great Hopes of his Recovery..but this only proved a Light'ning before Death. 1785 H. Walpole Let. 17 Sept. in Corr. (1974) XXXIII. 501 I hope this revival of wit is not lightning before death. 2015 Plastic News (Nexis) 10 Aug. 8 China's scrap imports showed a slight rebound in 2014, but Xuan called it ‘a lightening before death.’ extracted from lighteningn.¹ < as lemmas
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