| 单词 | sphinx-enigma |
| 释义 | > as lemmassphinx-enigma C1. attributive, as sphinx-enigma, sphinx-face, sphinx-figure, sphinx-form, sphinx-look, sphinx-question, sphinx-riddle. ΚΠ 1832 G. Long Egypt. Antiq. I. x. 218 So great is the variety of forms in which sphinx-figures occur. 1832 G. Long Egypt. Antiq. I. x. 225 Some light on the origin of the sphinx-form. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. i. 302 What Sphinx-questions; which the distracted world,..must answer or die. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. i. 402 One must act, and act at once; but it is a perfect sphinx-enigma to say How. 1886 W. Graham Social Probl. 41 The veritable sphinx-riddle which not to solve is to be destroyed. 1900 Cent. Mag. Feb. 510/2 You still might see..the sphinx face of the old West, smiling, mysterious, alluring. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Ladybird: Fox: Captain's Doll 230 The queer, blank, sphinx-look with which he gazed out beyond himself. < as lemmas |
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