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

(a) Nautical. the wind's eye: the direction from which the wind is blowing. Frequently in in the wind's eye. Also the eye of the wind.

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1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes lxxv. sig. Ciii^v The wethercocks beke is still in the wyndes eie.

1577 in J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. Advt. to Rdr. sig. Δ.iiij He findeth himself..partly forced, somwhat to yelde to the wickednes of these tymes, (being not possible to sayl against the windes eye).

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 39 Boording or beating it vp vpon a tacke in the winds eye, or bolting to and againe.

a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 50 The 4 galliottes..rowed into the windes eye.

1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 264 Let the Wind blow which Way it will, that Way they [sc. dead whales] will scull a Head, tho' right in the Eye of the Wind.

1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves II. xiii. 6 As for sailing in the wind's eye, brother, you must give me leave.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto X iv. 55 In the Wind's Eye I have sailed.

1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue 177 He's a Rip van Winkle skipper,..who sails his bedevilled old clipper In the wind's eye, straight as a bee.

1913 A. Conan Doyle Horror of Heights in Everybody's Mag. Nov. 586/1 Yet I had always to turn again and tack up in the wind's eye, for it was not merely a height-record that I was after.

1937 W. Lewis Revenge for Love ii. i. 75 Her head of a small wistful seabird, delicately drafted to sail in the eye of the wind.

1969 P. O'Brian Master & Commander (1970) iv. 128 ‘Anything to windward?’ called Jack... ‘Yes, sir. A sail. A lateen. Hull down in the wind's eye.’

1996 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 22 Apr. 20 On a hillock at Rammedalen a windmill, similar to our Brooklyn wind-turbine, turned in to the wind's eye.

单词	the eye of the wind
释义	> as lemmas the eye of the wind (a) Nautical. the wind's eye: the direction from which the wind is blowing. Frequently in in the wind's eye. Also the eye of the wind. ΚΠ 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes lxxv. sig. Ciii^v The wethercocks beke is still in the wyndes eie. 1577 in J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. Advt. to Rdr. sig. Δ.iiij He findeth himself..partly forced, somwhat to yelde to the wickednes of these tymes, (being not possible to sayl against the windes eye). 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 39 Boording or beating it vp vpon a tacke in the winds eye, or bolting to and againe. a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 50 The 4 galliottes..rowed into the windes eye. 1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 264 Let the Wind blow which Way it will, that Way they [sc. dead whales] will scull a Head, tho' right in the Eye of the Wind. 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves II. xiii. 6 As for sailing in the wind's eye, brother, you must give me leave. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto X iv. 55 In the Wind's Eye I have sailed. 1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue 177 He's a Rip van Winkle skipper,..who sails his bedevilled old clipper In the wind's eye, straight as a bee. 1913 A. Conan Doyle Horror of Heights in Everybody's Mag. Nov. 586/1 Yet I had always to turn again and tack up in the wind's eye, for it was not merely a height-record that I was after. 1937 W. Lewis Revenge for Love ii. i. 75 Her head of a small wistful seabird, delicately drafted to sail in the eye of the wind. 1969 P. O'Brian Master & Commander (1970) iv. 128 ‘Anything to windward?’ called Jack... ‘Yes, sir. A sail. A lateen. Hull down in the wind's eye.’ 1996 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 22 Apr. 20 On a hillock at Rammedalen a windmill, similar to our Brooklyn wind-turbine, turned in to the wind's eye. extracted from eyen.¹ < as lemmas
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