英语词汇“rake's progress”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

rake's progress n. [ < A Rake's Progress, the title of a series of eight paintings (1733–4) and subsequently also engravings (1735) by William Hogarth (see Hogarthian adj.), narrating the decline of a spendthrift, debauched young man about town from riches to death in a mental asylum] a progressive deterioration or decline, esp. through self-indulgence.

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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > course of

rake's progress1833

1833 W. L. Rede (title of play) The rake's progress.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xx. 183 (heading) Rake's progress.

1856 Obstructives & Man i. ii. 53 Now mark and con well this rake's progress of Statesmanship.

1897 Scribner's Mag. July 27 A rake's progress from the peace of the boarding-house to Pond's insidious pies and the dissolute haunt of Lake ended at the Woodcock.

1925 T. E. Lawrence Let. 13 June (1938) 476 If you want to trouble yourself still with the rake's progress of this deplorable work.

1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 250 If the Western Powers had a positive instead of a mainly negative international policy, they would come forward with a plan to check this rake's progress towards human and planetary bankruptcy.

2006 Time Out (Nexis) 12 Apr. 135 Princeton goes on a rake's progress, courted by sweet Kate Monster and hip-swinging Lucy T Slut, and led astray by the Bad Bears.

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释义	> as lemmas rake's progress rake's progress n. [ < A Rake's Progress, the title of a series of eight paintings (1733–4) and subsequently also engravings (1735) by William Hogarth (see Hogarthian adj.), narrating the decline of a spendthrift, debauched young man about town from riches to death in a mental asylum] a progressive deterioration or decline, esp. through self-indulgence. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > course of rake's progress1833 1833 W. L. Rede (title of play) The rake's progress. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xx. 183 (heading) Rake's progress. 1856 Obstructives & Man i. ii. 53 Now mark and con well this rake's progress of Statesmanship. 1897 Scribner's Mag. July 27 A rake's progress from the peace of the boarding-house to Pond's insidious pies and the dissolute haunt of Lake ended at the Woodcock. 1925 T. E. Lawrence Let. 13 June (1938) 476 If you want to trouble yourself still with the rake's progress of this deplorable work. 1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 250 If the Western Powers had a positive instead of a mainly negative international policy, they would come forward with a plan to check this rake's progress towards human and planetary bankruptcy. 2006 Time Out (Nexis) 12 Apr. 135 Princeton goes on a rake's progress, courted by sweet Kate Monster and hip-swinging Lucy T Slut, and led astray by the Bad Bears. extracted from raken.⁷ < as lemmas
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