| 单词 | point of view |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoint of view point of view n. [after French point de vue (1689; earlier in technical senses: see point of sight n. at Phrases 4l)] the position from which something is seen or viewed; (figurative) the perspective from which a subject or event is perceived, or a story, etc., narrated; a mental position or attitude (now the usual sense); occasionally attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] sightc1515 standing point1606 station1659 aspect1660 point of view1701 viewpoint1839 visual point1842 standpoint1843 eye-point1875 the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > mental attitude, point of view > [noun] spectaclec1386 reckoninga1393 view1573 sect1583 prospective1603 light1610 posture1642 point of view1701 stand1819 attitude of mind1832 psychology1834 standpoint1834 perspective1841–8 position1845 viewpoint1856 angle1860 way of looking at it1861 attitudea1873 pose1892 Anschauung1895 slant1905 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. i. 4 He [sc. Malebranch] is..the great Gallileo of the Intellectual World. He has given us the Point of View, and what ever farther Detections are made, it must be through his Telescope. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Point Point of View, with regard to Building, Painting, &c. is a Point at a certain Distance from a Building, or other Object, wherein the Eye has the most advantageous View, or Prospect of the same. 1793 E. Burke Remarks on Policy of Allies in Three Memorials on French Affairs (1797) 193 It is not the point of view in which we are in the habit of viewing guilt. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 11 Dec. 143 That he has seen the disputed subject in the same point of view. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 66 Every generation..demands that the history of its forefathers be rewritten from its own point of view. 1893 Bk.man June 85/1 From the world's point of view his unpopularity was richly deserved. 1921 P. Lubbock Craft of Fiction xvii. 251 The whole intricate question of method, in the craft of fiction, I take to be governed by the question of the point of view—the question of the relation in which the narrator stands to the story. 1958 Notes & Queries Feb. 85/2 The experimentation with dramatic forms in The Blithedale Romance is clearly a prefiguration of the point-of-view technique. Eschewing the novelist's omniscience, Hawthorne had his narrator cloud in vague terms the nature of Moodie's early crime. 1974 A. Ortiz in J. Billard World of Amer. Indian 184 Everyone who hears it [sc. a song] understands a little better, from the Navajo point of view, how they feel about their life, their land. 2003 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 36 335 From his point of view, apart from a few juniors of little interest to Fourcroy, it was a group almost of equals. < as lemmas |
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