英语词汇“like rats leaving a sinking ship”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P4. In (chiefly similative) phrases indicating desertion or abandonment of something when failure or difficulty seems inevitable, with allusion to the belief that rats leave a house about to fall down or a ship about to sink. Now chiefly in like rats leaving a sinking ship and variants. Cf. sense 4d.

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1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 46 It is founde by obeseruation, that Rats and Dormyse, wyll forsake olde and ruinous houses, three monthes before they fall.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 147 A rotten carkasse of a Butt, not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sayle, nor mast, the very rats Instinctiuely haue quit it.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 137 It is the Wisedome of Rats, that will be sure to leaue a House, somewhat before it fall.]

1661 G. Wharton Select & Choice Poems 34 Some (like Rats) forsook the falling House.

1675 E. Stillingfleet Answer Mr. Cressy's Epist. v. 483 Have they made any renunciation since, of any of those doctrines which were thought so dangerous then? or are they quite gone from us,..like Rats have forsaken a sinking Ship?

a1732 J. Gay Fables (1742) II. ix. 86 As rats, before the mansion falls, Desert late hospitable walls, In shoals the servile creatures run.

1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry I. ii. 230 It could hardly at present be said that he had any acquaintance with his friends; for by a kind of divining art, (like rats who leave a ship that is sinking) they had for some time foreseen that Nicanor's ruin was at hand.

1841 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. II. xix. 336 On Saturday, the first of June, like rats leaving a sinking ship, we broke up and left the ruins.

1868 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. 4/3 Large amounts of stock from suspicious quarters were forced on the market Rats were evidently leaving the falling house.

1895 J. Payn In Market Overt xxvi. 241 This is bad news indeed about Barton's pupils... It is a case of the rats leaving the sinking ship, I fear.

1916 Folk-lore 27 289 Was it a natural feeling of aversion on their part that led them to have nothing to do with him—like rats leaving a sinking ship?

1985 N. Herman My Kleinian Home 87 As rats will leave a sinking ship, we were abandoned by the world.

2003 N.Y. Times 8 June ii. 25/4 At Lincoln Center, meanwhile..the rats are scurrying down the hawser, fleeing a sinking ship.

单词	like rats leaving a sinking ship
释义	> as lemmas like rats leaving a sinking ship P4. In (chiefly similative) phrases indicating desertion or abandonment of something when failure or difficulty seems inevitable, with allusion to the belief that rats leave a house about to fall down or a ship about to sink. Now chiefly in like rats leaving a sinking ship and variants. Cf. sense 4d. ΚΠ 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 46 It is founde by obeseruation, that Rats and Dormyse, wyll forsake olde and ruinous houses, three monthes before they fall. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 147 A rotten carkasse of a Butt, not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sayle, nor mast, the very rats Instinctiuely haue quit it. View more context for this quotation 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 137 It is the Wisedome of Rats, that will be sure to leaue a House, somewhat before it fall.] 1661 G. Wharton Select & Choice Poems 34 Some (like Rats) forsook the falling House. 1675 E. Stillingfleet Answer Mr. Cressy's Epist. v. 483 Have they made any renunciation since, of any of those doctrines which were thought so dangerous then? or are they quite gone from us,..like Rats have forsaken a sinking Ship? a1732 J. Gay Fables (1742) II. ix. 86 As rats, before the mansion falls, Desert late hospitable walls, In shoals the servile creatures run. 1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry I. ii. 230 It could hardly at present be said that he had any acquaintance with his friends; for by a kind of divining art, (like rats who leave a ship that is sinking) they had for some time foreseen that Nicanor's ruin was at hand. 1841 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. II. xix. 336 On Saturday, the first of June, like rats leaving a sinking ship, we broke up and left the ruins. 1868 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. 4/3 Large amounts of stock from suspicious quarters were forced on the market Rats were evidently leaving the falling house. 1895 J. Payn In Market Overt xxvi. 241 This is bad news indeed about Barton's pupils... It is a case of the rats leaving the sinking ship, I fear. 1916 Folk-lore 27 289 Was it a natural feeling of aversion on their part that led them to have nothing to do with him—like rats leaving a sinking ship? 1985 N. Herman My Kleinian Home 87 As rats will leave a sinking ship, we were abandoned by the world. 2003 N.Y. Times 8 June ii. 25/4 At Lincoln Center, meanwhile..the rats are scurrying down the hawser, fleeing a sinking ship. extracted from ratn.¹ < as lemmas
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