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单词 mine of information
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mine of information
c. figurative. An abundant or constant source of supply; a store from which (something specified) may be obtained in plenty or whose supply is by no means exhausted. Frequently with of, esp. in mine of information.Sometimes with contextual indication that this is a figurative use of sense 1a.
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > source of supply > abundant
mine?1541
storehouse1578
pantheon1596
cornucopia1611
goshen1890
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Oij Specyally aboute the pryncipal membres that are the mynes of strength.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. B.iiv Some in rydinge, some in playnge at fence, euerye man accordinge to the moine of his mettall [It. (1547) 6 b, ciascuno secondo la minera del suo metallo].
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. vi, in Wks. I. 584 I am glad of the fortune..to gaine the knowledge of so rich a mine of vertue, as sir Davphine. View more context for this quotation
1658 P. Cleveland Upon Mr. J. Cleveland (single sheet) Poize this Imparallel; and you will find A Mine of Treasures in a Matchless Mind.
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 112 A Mart of Trade and a Mine of Wealth, [of] which the inexhaustion of this last twenty-six years by Sums unsummable,..would be incredible.
a1764 R. Lloyd Dialogue in Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 4 You must have a fund, a mine, Prose, poems, letters.
1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) I. xliii. 256 There may be still an undug mine of knowledge.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xi. 8 Her memory was a mine: she knew by heart All Calderon and greater part of Lopé.
1830 Lady Morgan France 1829–30 I. 321 There was..Dumas, the author of ‘Henry the Third’, one of the most successful adventurers in the rich and new mine of romanticism.
1856 E. B. Kelly Autobiogr. ix. 72 Both proved to be Spanish Galleons..and when captured by another privateer..made for each sailor a share of more than eighteen hundred dollars. Thus the timidity of our captain lost us a mine of wealth.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xxii. 322 He hadn't the heart to insult a rival who kept a mine of chocolate drops in his waistcoat pocket.
1905 Athenæum 30 Dec. 887/2 Her book is a mine of valuable information.
1930 Economist 31 May 1224/1 The ‘Bank and Finance’ volume..is a mine of information about the classes of activity covered.
1995 Irish Times (Nexis) 16 Dec. 4 Father Comyn describes the fisheries potential as a mine of wealth.
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