| 单词 | a sealed book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa sealed book b. figurative or in figurative context; also with up. a sealed book: often used predicatively of something involved in obscurity, or beyond a person's capacity to understand. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun] > instance of lock1563 incomprehensibility1651 inscrutables1665 incomprehensible1678 inconceivable1706 I know not what1711 unknowable1725 unsearchable1725 indefinable1810 a sealed book1814 unknowable1816 unintelligible1838 inconceivability1851 imponderable1855 inscrutablenessa1864 unfathomability1867 unthinkable1871 closed book1913 intangible1914 imponderabilia1925 generation gap1962 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxix. 11 And the vision of all is become vnto you, as the wordes of a booke that is sealed. View more context for this quotation] 1814 C. Lamb Let. 19 Sept. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 113 My left arm reposes on ‘Excursion’. I feel what it would be in quiet. It is now a sealed Book. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xlviii. 27 This, too, was a seal'd book to little Juan. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 173 Nature with her truth remains to the bad, to the selfish and the pusillanimous, forever a sealed book. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali II. iii. 107 It is no longer a sealed language. 1881 A. O'Shaughnessy Songs of Worker 171 O bearer with sealed lips of all the lore Man yearns to know. 1884 W. James in Mind 9 201 No impression penetrates to the sealed-up sensibility. 1943 C. Day Lewis Word over All 17 Or a heightening At most of the sealed-up hour wherein we awaited What? < as lemmas |
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