英语词汇“pair of eyeglasses”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Each of a pair of lenses for correcting or assisting defective eyesight, together with a frame or mounting which enables them to be kept in place in front of the eyes. Usually in plural: glasses, spectacles (frequently in pair of eyeglasses). Chiefly North American in later use.Formerly used esp. of a pair of such lenses designed to be held in the hand or kept in position by a spring on the nose, without the additional support of arms and earpieces; but still less common, as a term for such items however constructed, than glasses or spectacles.Quot. 1593 may refer to some kind of eye protection, rather than something worn to assist the eyesight; cf. sense 5.

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eyeglass1593

glass eye1721

quizzing glass1800

quizzer1806

ogling-glass1843

monocle1873

monoculus1892

window1896

Piccadilly window1897

windowpane1923

1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries iv. 39 They haue no need of spectacles [Fr. lunettes], wherewith to see small thinges, nor of eye glasses [Fr. faux œils], otherwise called Bernacles, when they trauell in windie weather.

1797 G. Staunton Authentic Acct. Embassy to China II. vii. 542 The workmen did not seem to understand any principle of optics, so as to form the eye-glasses of such convexities or concavities, as to supply the various defects of vision.

1840 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 33 188 One of the principal rules..to be observed in all cases of myopy is, to have recourse to eye-glasses rather somewhat late than too early.

1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. xiii. 254 Eyes are bearable, but eye-glasses an abomination.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. i. 7 An old bewigged woman with eyeglasses pinching her nose.

1903 Daily Mail 22 Jan. 1/2 Lost, gold engraved hand eyeglasses.

1915 J. M. Thompson tr. in A. F. Steuart Papers relating to Scots in Poland 69 16 pairs of suspending eye-glasses.

1938 W. J. Blake World is Mine x. 163 He..had pedantic eyeglasses with thin gold earpieces.

1987 M. Dorris Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988) ix. 165 She had a long, horsey face.., all teeth and oblong eyeglasses.

2005 Asian Age 28 Sept. 9/3 ‘We feel that we don't have the right to alter nature,’ said Mr Rene Mure, glaring behind large tortoise-shell-rimmed eyeglasses.

单词	pair of eyeglasses
释义	> as lemmas pair of eyeglasses a. Each of a pair of lenses for correcting or assisting defective eyesight, together with a frame or mounting which enables them to be kept in place in front of the eyes. Usually in plural: glasses, spectacles (frequently in pair of eyeglasses). Chiefly North American in later use.Formerly used esp. of a pair of such lenses designed to be held in the hand or kept in position by a spring on the nose, without the additional support of arms and earpieces; but still less common, as a term for such items however constructed, than glasses or spectacles.Quot. 1593 may refer to some kind of eye protection, rather than something worn to assist the eyesight; cf. sense 5. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > eye-glass or monocle eyeglass1593 glass eye1721 quizzing glass1800 quizzer1806 ogling-glass1843 monocle1873 monoculus1892 window1896 Piccadilly window1897 windowpane1923 1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries iv. 39 They haue no need of spectacles [Fr. lunettes], wherewith to see small thinges, nor of eye glasses [Fr. faux œils], otherwise called Bernacles, when they trauell in windie weather. 1797 G. Staunton Authentic Acct. Embassy to China II. vii. 542 The workmen did not seem to understand any principle of optics, so as to form the eye-glasses of such convexities or concavities, as to supply the various defects of vision. 1840 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 33 188 One of the principal rules..to be observed in all cases of myopy is, to have recourse to eye-glasses rather somewhat late than too early. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. xiii. 254 Eyes are bearable, but eye-glasses an abomination. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. i. 7 An old bewigged woman with eyeglasses pinching her nose. 1903 Daily Mail 22 Jan. 1/2 Lost, gold engraved hand eyeglasses. 1915 J. M. Thompson tr. in A. F. Steuart Papers relating to Scots in Poland 69 16 pairs of suspending eye-glasses. 1938 W. J. Blake World is Mine x. 163 He..had pedantic eyeglasses with thin gold earpieces. 1987 M. Dorris Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988) ix. 165 She had a long, horsey face.., all teeth and oblong eyeglasses. 2005 Asian Age 28 Sept. 9/3 ‘We feel that we don't have the right to alter nature,’ said Mr Rene Mure, glaring behind large tortoise-shell-rimmed eyeglasses. extracted from eyeglassn. < as lemmas
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