单词 | other self |
释义 | > as lemmasother self 2. In various extended uses denoting a person (or body of people) whom one loves as oneself or who is a counterpart of oneself (now only in other self and second self n. at second adj. 4c). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > second self or kindred spirit another myself1526 alter ego1537 another I1539 self1557 second self1586 alter idema1618 himself1622 twin soul1868 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 105 In wealth and wo thy frend, an other self to thee. 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C4v Welcome my selfe, of selfe. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 4 Heavens grant you a safe return. God keep thee my half self. 1681 C. Beale Pocket-bk. in H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (1763) III. i. 76 My dear heart and self and son Charles. a1700 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 115 But when the Babe breaks out into the Light, Soon as her little self is in her sight,..She feels a Mother's Bowels yearn within. 1763 C. Johnstone Reverie (new ed.) II. 133 The tender connexions of nature, which, as it were, multiply a man into many selfs for the safety of each dear particular of whom, his anxiety is greater than for his own. 1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xliv, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 23 We shall not die nor disappear, But in these other selves, ourselves succeed. 1858 A. P. Stanley Life of Dr. Arnold I. iii. 89 Our ‘great self’, the school. ?1927 D. Thompson Diary 9 Sept. in Harper's Mag. (1963) Oct. 128/1 The real woman looks for the man whom she feels to be her male self. 1931 E. Wilson Axel's Castle ii. 45 The other self, the anti-self or the antithetical self. 1994 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 25 Apr. c4 Watching our miniature selves endure the same bad moments life held for us is too much to ask of loving parents. 2005 J. Urquhart Map of Glass (2006) 277 Annabelle..had always believed that Marie was her other, more beautiful self. < as lemmas |
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