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单词 thought-bound
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thought-bound
thought-bound adj. (a) limited by existing thoughts or assumptions, or by thinking; (b) transfixed in thought; incapacitated by having too many thoughts.
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1651 S. Sheppard Epigrams vi. 'Tis true, I do in darknesse goe, That I am thought-bound well I know.
1749 A. Hill Gideon (rev. ed.) 89 Echo's hard Groan threw sad Sensation round, And thought-bound Silence started, at the Sound!
1834 R. M. Milnes Memorials of Tour in Greece 148 I saw another day The phantom of that youth, sitting alone, Quiet, thought-bound, a stone upon a stone.
1876 L. S. Bevington Key Notes 23 'Tis well no art of ours can ever teach The wind and song-bird trammell'd, thought-bound speech.
1895 S. M. Hensley Woman's Love Lett. 1 I passed the waking things that stirred and gazed, Thought-bound, and heeded not.
1924 H. G. Barker in Cent. Mag. May 22/2 The king does nothing but think. He is thought-bound.
1929 J. H. Woodger Biol. Princ. 28 A thinker who is not prepared to criticize his demands and assumptions..is thought-bound.
1999 S. Harrison Being One (2002) 45 We pick up this very book, thinking it might help with our thought-bound world.
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