英语词汇“still waters run deep”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P5. In proverbs. still (also smooth) waters run deep and variants: a quiet or placid manner may conceal a passionate nature; (sometimes more generally) a superficial appearance of calm, simplicity, etc., may be deceptive. [With quot. a1400 compare quot. lOE at sense 10b, which shows a different translation of the same Latin text.]

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a1400 Cato's Distichs (Fairf.) l. 239 in R. Morris Cursor Mundi (1878) III. App. iv. 1672 (MED) Þer þe flode is deppist þe water standis stillist [L. quod flumen placidum est, forsan latet altius unda].

a1500 (?a1410) J. Lydgate Churl & Bird (Lansd.) l. 184 in Minor Poems (1934) 476 Smothe watres beth oft-sithis deepe.

1607 T. Tuke True Trial Sinner 88 When she is most iocund and obsequious, then shee is most pernicious and dangerous: as the stillest waters are the deepest and most deceitfull.

1632 T. Heywood Iron Age sig. H2^v Let not least rage Raigne in your eye, or harshnesse in your tongue, Smooth waters are still deep'st.

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 287 Smooth Waters run deep. Spoken to or of them who seem demure, yet are suspected to be roguish.

1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Tartuffe i. i, in Molière Wks. X. 81 Still Waters, they say, are always deepest; and under your sly Airs, you carry on a Trade I don't at all approve of.

1825 P. Howes New-Eng. Drama ii. iii. 24 I always knew she was an artful jade; ‘still waters run deep;’ but she shall be exposed.

1890 Times of India 12 Mar. 6/4 Of fuss or impatience there is about him not a trace. That's one secret of his vast capacity, for ‘Still waters run deep’.

1935 J. McCord Dawns Delayed xiii. 200 ‘Does she ever speak of..it?’ ‘She never does.’ ‘I fancied not. Still waters, my dear.’

2002 D. Yetman Guarijiós of Sierra Madre vi. 84/1 I later found that he is known as a taciturn fellow but still do not know whether still waters run deep in his case.

单词	still waters run deep
释义	> as lemmas still (also smooth) waters run deep P5. In proverbs. still (also smooth) waters run deep and variants: a quiet or placid manner may conceal a passionate nature; (sometimes more generally) a superficial appearance of calm, simplicity, etc., may be deceptive. [With quot. a1400 compare quot. lOE at sense 10b, which shows a different translation of the same Latin text.] ΚΠ a1400 Cato's Distichs (Fairf.) l. 239 in R. Morris Cursor Mundi (1878) III. App. iv. 1672 (MED) Þer þe flode is deppist þe water standis stillist [L. quod flumen placidum est, forsan latet altius unda]. a1500 (?a1410) J. Lydgate Churl & Bird (Lansd.) l. 184 in Minor Poems (1934) 476 Smothe watres beth oft-sithis deepe. 1607 T. Tuke True Trial Sinner 88 When she is most iocund and obsequious, then shee is most pernicious and dangerous: as the stillest waters are the deepest and most deceitfull. 1632 T. Heywood Iron Age sig. H2^v Let not least rage Raigne in your eye, or harshnesse in your tongue, Smooth waters are still deep'st. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 287 Smooth Waters run deep. Spoken to or of them who seem demure, yet are suspected to be roguish. 1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Tartuffe i. i, in Molière Wks. X. 81 Still Waters, they say, are always deepest; and under your sly Airs, you carry on a Trade I don't at all approve of. 1825 P. Howes New-Eng. Drama ii. iii. 24 I always knew she was an artful jade; ‘still waters run deep;’ but she shall be exposed. 1890 Times of India 12 Mar. 6/4 Of fuss or impatience there is about him not a trace. That's one secret of his vast capacity, for ‘Still waters run deep’. 1935 J. McCord Dawns Delayed xiii. 200 ‘Does she ever speak of..it?’ ‘She never does.’ ‘I fancied not. Still waters, my dear.’ 2002 D. Yetman Guarijiós of Sierra Madre vi. 84/1 I later found that he is known as a taciturn fellow but still do not know whether still waters run deep in his case. extracted from watern. < as lemmas
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