| 单词 | the shadow of a shade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe shadow of a shade b. figurative. An unsubstantial image of something real; an unreal appearance; something that has only a fleeting existence, or that has become reduced almost to nothing; = shadow n. 6. Now only poetic or rhetorical. Also, with strengthened hyperbole, the shadow of a shade. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance > mere appearance or image of something shadow?c1225 shade1297 phantomc1384 moonshine1468 fume1531 show1547 eggs in moonshine?1558 smoke1559 sign1597 ghost1613 umbra1635 parhelion1636 bogle1793 simulacrum1805 phantasmagoria1821 spectre1849 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2330 Þe king nas him sulf bote as a ssade & let im worþe al out. a1300 Sarmun xxxviii, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 5 Man-is lif nis bot a schade nov he is and nov he nis. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 77 Holy wryt þet hise clepeþ leazinges and ssed and metinges and uanites. c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxix. iv They are but shades, not true things where we live. 1591–2 Rob Stene's Dream (1836) 3 A sched, but substance, and no moir. 1664 S. Crossman in Palmer Bk. Praise (1865) 166 My life's a shade, my days Apace to death decline. a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 129 The consulate, that empty shade Of long-forgotten liberty. 1814 S. T. Coleridge To Lady with Falconer's ‘Shipwreck’ vi Remembrances of Friend, Or absent or no more! Shades of the Past, Which Love makes substance! 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 288 I am a member of the suffering and episcopal church of Scotland—the shadow of a shade now, and fortunately so. 1874 A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 185 We die..And shades, we hunt some shade of our desire. < as lemmas |
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