英语词汇“the mountain has brought forth a mouse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. the mountain has (laboured and) brought forth a mouse and variants: great struggle, effort, etc., may result in something ridiculously small or insignificant. Also in various allusions to this. [Originally in translations of or references to classical Latin Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus (Horace Ars Poetica 139), or other versions of this fable.]

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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 3572 For so it fell that ilke day, This hell on his childinge lay,..The nerr this hell was upon chance To taken his deliverance, The more unbuxomliche he cride;..And ate laste it was a Mous, The which was bore.

1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance Pref. f. v When these great hyllys had thus trauailed longe,..the good houre came on as god wold, y^t one was broughte a bed, with sore labour at laste deliuered of a dede mouse.

1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes Prol. sig. A3 So we hope, if the shower of our swelling mountaine seeme to bring forth some Eliphant, perfourme but a mouse, you will gently saye, this is a beast.

1598 F. Rous Thule i. sig. B Nor let your harts great hils bring foorth a mouse.

a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 199 in Wks. (1640) III The Mountains travail'd, and brought forth A trifling Mouse!

1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry II. iv. ii. 301 Do we not perceive all the mountains in labour, and find the produce to be—a mouse?

1808 F. Reynolds Begone Dull Care Prol. p. v The Author's..pains of labour have rung thro' the house, And, like the mountain, oft produc'd a mouse.

1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 14 Oct. 14/4 It is curious that such a grave contingency should spring from such a trivial cause. This time it is the mouse that brings forth the mountain.

1982 Economist (Nexis) 6 Mar. 19 Considering the mountain of labour during the past year, it was a pathetic mouse for the prime minister to put before her new committee.

单词	the mountain has brought forth a mouse
释义	> as lemmas the mountain has (laboured and) brought forth a mouse P2. the mountain has (laboured and) brought forth a mouse and variants: great struggle, effort, etc., may result in something ridiculously small or insignificant. Also in various allusions to this. [Originally in translations of or references to classical Latin Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus (Horace Ars Poetica 139), or other versions of this fable.] ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 3572 For so it fell that ilke day, This hell on his childinge lay,..The nerr this hell was upon chance To taken his deliverance, The more unbuxomliche he cride;..And ate laste it was a Mous, The which was bore. 1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance Pref. f. v When these great hyllys had thus trauailed longe,..the good houre came on as god wold, y^t one was broughte a bed, with sore labour at laste deliuered of a dede mouse. 1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes Prol. sig. A3 So we hope, if the shower of our swelling mountaine seeme to bring forth some Eliphant, perfourme but a mouse, you will gently saye, this is a beast. 1598 F. Rous Thule i. sig. B Nor let your harts great hils bring foorth a mouse. a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 199 in Wks. (1640) III The Mountains travail'd, and brought forth A trifling Mouse! 1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry II. iv. ii. 301 Do we not perceive all the mountains in labour, and find the produce to be—a mouse? 1808 F. Reynolds Begone Dull Care Prol. p. v The Author's..pains of labour have rung thro' the house, And, like the mountain, oft produc'd a mouse. 1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 14 Oct. 14/4 It is curious that such a grave contingency should spring from such a trivial cause. This time it is the mouse that brings forth the mountain. 1982 Economist (Nexis) 6 Mar. 19 Considering the mountain of labour during the past year, it was a pathetic mouse for the prime minister to put before her new committee. extracted from mousen. < as lemmas
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