| 单词 | needle eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasneedle eye needle eye n. the eye of a needle; frequently in allusions to the biblical use. [Probably originally reflecting a genitive compound with unmarked first element (compare quot. OE).] ΚΠ OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xix. 24 Ic eow secge þæt eaðelicre byð þam olfende to ganne þurh nædle eage [L. per foramen acus] þonne se welega on heofona rice ga.] a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 69 (MED) Ne mai na more..ðe riche mann cumen in to heuene riche, ðanne mai ðe oluende cumen ðurh ðe nædle eiȝen. a1640 Earl of Stirling Doomes-day vii, in Poet. Wks. (1929) II. 230 They who by riches nought save pleasure sought..To heaven..as hardly can be brought, As cable-ropes come through a needle eye. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 36/2 Another game played by a number of children with a hold of one another..is, Through the Needle-e'e. 1900 T. W. Fox Mechanism Weaving (ed. 2) vi. 143 In it a neck cord..passes through a needle eye, through a perforated trap board, that takes the place of a griffe. 1995 Daily Tel. 23 Mar. 15/8 Some needle-eye entrance where buyers, editors and photographers fight like bats in a scrum to get into Galliano or Lacroix or the latest Afro-Belgian deconstructionist designer. < as lemmas |
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