英语词汇“though the heavens fall”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P6. though the heavens fall and variants [probably after post-classical Latin fiat justitia et ruant coeli ‘let justice be done though the heavens fall’ (1602 or earlier; compare quots. 1602, 1958); compare classical Latin ruant caeli tonitralia templa lest the thundering vaults of heaven should burst (Lucretius De Rerum Natura 1. 1083)] : in any circumstances; ‘no matter what’, ‘come what may’.

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1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions App. 338 You (deere Catholikes)..goe against that Generall maxime in the lawes, which is that, fiat iustitia & ruant cœli.]

1821 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 313 The syntax shall come to pass though the heavens fall.

1865 Times 3 Feb. 7/1 His Honour..will give me right, though the Heavens fall.

1917 Sunday State Jrnl. (Madison, Wisconsin) 26 Aug. 7/4 American ladies will have clothes, no matter if the heavens fall.

1958 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 1 20 The insistence that justice be done though the heavens fall.

2003 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) (Electronic ed.) Mar. 276 Though the heavens fall, she'll be a good mother.

单词	though the heavens fall
释义	> as lemmas though the heavens fall P6. though the heavens fall and variants [probably after post-classical Latin fiat justitia et ruant coeli ‘let justice be done though the heavens fall’ (1602 or earlier; compare quots. 1602, 1958); compare classical Latin ruant caeli tonitralia templa lest the thundering vaults of heaven should burst (Lucretius De Rerum Natura 1. 1083)] : in any circumstances; ‘no matter what’, ‘come what may’. ΚΠ 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions App. 338 You (deere Catholikes)..goe against that Generall maxime in the lawes, which is that, fiat iustitia & ruant cœli.] 1821 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 313 The syntax shall come to pass though the heavens fall. 1865 Times 3 Feb. 7/1 His Honour..will give me right, though the Heavens fall. 1917 Sunday State Jrnl. (Madison, Wisconsin) 26 Aug. 7/4 American ladies will have clothes, no matter if the heavens fall. 1958 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 1 20 The insistence that justice be done though the heavens fall. 2003 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) (Electronic ed.) Mar. 276 Though the heavens fall, she'll be a good mother. extracted from heavenn. < as lemmas
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