英语词汇“the centre cannot hold”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 centre cannot hold and variants: used with allusion to the poem cited in quot. 1920 to express a sense of imminent collapse, e.g. (a) the collapse of society or the world as a whole; (b) the collapse of the prevailing political situation, esp. through widespread abandonment of moderate views in favour of extreme or highly polarized ones.Sometimes as a more extended quotation of Yeats's original poem.

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1920 W. B. Yeats Second Coming in Dial Nov. 466 Things fall apart; the centre can not hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.]

1946 Irish Times 20 May 5/4 The listlessness which is generated by want..can erode with ease the self-respect and domestic organisation that keep a family in a reasonable condition. In other words, ‘things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.’

1978 Boundary 2 7 i. 18 What you seem to be implying..is that the early Modern poets..were sort of tragic in their recognition that the center will not hold.

2001 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 5 Mar. 1/1 As things fall apart in Israel, the American center cannot hold. Extremists on either end become more so, and moderates are sprinting toward the edges.

2015 L. Weirather Fred Barton & Warlords' Horses of China iii. 45 The empire appeared weak and close to collapsing. The center could not hold.

单词	the centre cannot hold
释义	> as lemmas the centre cannot hold P2. the centre cannot hold and variants: used with allusion to the poem cited in quot. 1920 to express a sense of imminent collapse, e.g. (a) the collapse of society or the world as a whole; (b) the collapse of the prevailing political situation, esp. through widespread abandonment of moderate views in favour of extreme or highly polarized ones.Sometimes as a more extended quotation of Yeats's original poem. ΚΠ 1920 W. B. Yeats Second Coming in Dial Nov. 466 Things fall apart; the centre can not hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.] 1946 Irish Times 20 May 5/4 The listlessness which is generated by want..can erode with ease the self-respect and domestic organisation that keep a family in a reasonable condition. In other words, ‘things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.’ 1978 Boundary 2 7 i. 18 What you seem to be implying..is that the early Modern poets..were sort of tragic in their recognition that the center will not hold. 2001 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 5 Mar. 1/1 As things fall apart in Israel, the American center cannot hold. Extremists on either end become more so, and moderates are sprinting toward the edges. 2015 L. Weirather Fred Barton & Warlords' Horses of China iii. 45 The empire appeared weak and close to collapsing. The center could not hold. extracted from centrecentern.¹adj. < as lemmas
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