| 单词 | one cannot bathe in the same river twice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone cannot bathe in the same river twice P3. one cannot bathe in the same river twice and variants [after ancient Greek δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης ‘you cannot step twice into the same stream’, attributed by Plato ( Cratylus 402a) to Heraclitus; compare Hellenistic Greek ποταμοῖς γὰρ δὶς τοῖς αὐτοῖς οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης ‘you cannot step twice into the same streams’, similarly attributed to Heraclitus by Plutarch (compare quot. 1603)] : circumstances are in a constant state of flux. ΚΠ 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1003 As Heraclitus saith: It is impossible for a man to enter into one and the same river twice, because new water commeth still, and runneth away continually. 1670 T. Tenison Creed Mr. Hobbes ii. v. 92 Attend then to the meaning of Heraclitus, who was wont to say, That no Man bathed twice in the same River; and of a Modern Physitian who hath told us, That no Man sits down the same to a second Meal. 1778 T. Reader Preaching of Gospel 5 No man ever bathed twice in the same river, ‘or awoke twice to the same life’. 1908 R. C. Trevelyan Sisyphus iii. 72 But, alas! by the best advice One cannot bathe in the same river twice. 2006 Runner's World Mar. 52/1 It's been said that you can never put your foot in the same river twice... Why is it then that runners think they can run the same route or same race twice? < as lemmas |
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