单词 | there is nothing new under the sun |
释义 | > as lemmasthere is nothing new under the sun (b) there is nothing new under the sun and variants: whatever may seem new or original is unlikely to be a genuine innovation; there is never or rarely anything new or original in the world. Later also in allusive statements asserting that something is a genuine innovation.Sometimes, esp. in early use, with allusion to Ecclesiastes 1:9 (1:10 in some versions); cf. quot. a1382. [In early use after post-classical Latin nihil sub sole novum (Vulgate) and perhaps also after German nichts Neues unter der Sonne (Luther 1524; compare quot. c1545), both after an expression in biblical Hebrew.] ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Eccles. i. 10 No thing vnder the sunne newe. c1545 Bokes Salomon f. xxxix The thynge that hath bene done, is done agayne, there is no new thyng vnder the sonne. 1599 R. Pont Newe Treat. Right Reckoning of Yeares 66 There is nothing new vnder the Sun, but that which is newe, hath bene in the ages before, and the like shall be hereafter. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. i. viii. 26 These are new things vnder the Sunne, and this a new interpretation, which himselfe prefaceth with Papae! nouam & inauditam exponendi rationem! a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) i. 2 And what is done, is what is to be done; There's nothing that is new beneath the Sunne. 1737 A. Pope 2nd Epist. of 2nd Bk. Horace, Imitated 9 He walks, an Object new beneath the Sun! 1790 Lady's Mag. June 283/1 That there is nothing new under the sun, is an opinion which will, perhaps, be readily taken up by all who are deeply conversant with ancient history. 1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 362 There is nothing new under the sun—an observation which is indeed verificatory of itself. 1869 Galaxy Feb. 307/1 Nothing is new under the sun—not ‘waterfalls’, crinoline, paniers, not rouge and pearl powder, [etc.]. 1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe iv. 218 He said there was nothing new under the sun: and that showed you the kind of twister he was. 1938 Amer. Home Oct. 15/1 Lounge beds are something new under the sun and something that will be appreciated by everyone who lives in an apartment. 2017 Irish Independent (Nexis) 3 June (Review section) 15 As Sherlock Holmes once observed, there's nothing new under the sun. < as lemmas |
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