| 单词 | a pair of scales |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pair of scales a. plural (†In 16th cent. rarely construed as singular). A weighing instrument; esp. one (often called a pair of scales) consisting of a beam which is pivoted at its middle and at either end of which a dish, pan, board, or slab is suspended. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus > a balance weigha1050 weightsa1300 balancea1375 weigh-shale1465 scales1480 weigh-beam1492 launce1590 scale instrumenta1691 scale balance1809 the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus > a balance > scales weighc825 weightsa1300 balance1388 weigh-scalea1400 weighing-scalesc1450 scales1480 weigh-balk1824 α. β. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. v. 1 Then take the scoales and the waight, and deuyde the hayre a sunder.1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxvii. 1) As it were weying in a pair of skoles, whatsoever power is in the world and in hel.1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 36 A sin..that seemes small in the common beam of the world, may be very great in the scoales of his Sanctuary.a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Scoles, pl. scales.1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 131 Standisshes with weightes and scales iij. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 182 Vnes belances, a payre of balans or scales to wey with. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xciv. 56 Wee must not wey our own woorkes in our owne scales. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. ii. 98 In that Cristall scales let there be waide, Your Ladyes loue, against some other maide. 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 4 If we consider the Dignity of an Intelligent Being, and put that in the scales against brute inanimate Matter. 1697 J. Floyer Enq. Use Baths Pref. sig. c5 By Sanctorius's Scales he found the Body to weigh less after bathing in cold Water. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 83 Their Scales were false, their Weights were light. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 18 The goddess who had inclined the scales of battle in favour of Theodosius. 1871 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce ii. i. 117 Public scales, at which citizens could weigh their corn food. 1884 J. R. Lowell Democracy (1887) 42 In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as brain. < as lemmas |
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