| 单词 | thought-line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthought-line thought-line n. (a) a train of thought, a line of intellectual development; (b) a facial wrinkle supposedly caused by concentrated thinking. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [noun] > wrinkle rimpleeOE rivellingOE rivelc1325 crow's footc1374 frounce1390 wrinklea1400 frumplec1440 freckle1519 line1538 lirkc1540 shrivel1547 plait1574 furrow1589 trench1594 crowfoot1614 seam1765 thought-line1858 laughter line1867 laugh line1913 smile-line1921 worry lines1972 1858 M. F. Tupper Rides & Reveries Late Mr. Aesop Smith 84 Heretofore I have acknowledged my obligations to our rivulet in the thought line. 1867 Old Guard June 463/2 There are thought-lines in my forehead, and laughter-lines about my mouth. 1909 J. Wells Stewart of Lovedale xxxiv. 371 His strenuous life had deepened the thought-lines on his strong face. 1956 Harvard Theol. Rev. 49 159 Sometimes between the 4th and 7th centuries, a recension of the N[ew] T[estament], or at least of the Pauline and Catholic epistles, into thought-lines was made. 2005 Evening Standard (Nexis) 21 Mar. 71 Hassidic Jews, whose fundamentalist outlook keeps their vocabulary and verbal imagery within very narrow thoughtlines. < as lemmas |
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