英语词汇“the roof and crown of”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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the roof and crown of (something)

P2. the roof and crown of (something): the crowning glory or pinnacle of; cf. crown n. 27. In later use in allusion to Tennyson (see quot. 1832).

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1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters: Choric Song ii, in Poems (new ed.) 112 Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?

1891 Eagle Mar. 463 Man is the roof and crown of things. Cambridge, it is generally allowed, is the roof and crown of man.

1904 Eclectic Rev. 80 669/2 The roman policier is not the roof and crown of the art of fiction.

2002 N. Prasad Personal Bias in Literary Crit. iii. 54 That is why art is ‘the roof and crown of culture’ and without art life would be empty.

extracted from roofn.

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单词	the roof and crown of
释义	> as lemmas the roof and crown of (something) P2. the roof and crown of (something): the crowning glory or pinnacle of; cf. crown n. 27. In later use in allusion to Tennyson (see quot. 1832). ΚΠ 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters: Choric Song ii, in Poems (new ed.) 112 Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things? 1891 Eagle Mar. 463 Man is the roof and crown of things. Cambridge, it is generally allowed, is the roof and crown of man. 1904 Eclectic Rev. 80 669/2 The roman policier is not the roof and crown of the art of fiction. 2002 N. Prasad Personal Bias in Literary Crit. iii. 54 That is why art is ‘the roof and crown of culture’ and without art life would be empty. extracted from roofn. < as lemmas
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