英语词汇“to cross the river”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P4. euphemistic. In miscellaneous uses as an image for the boundary between life and death, esp. in to cross the (dark) river: to die, pass away. [With allusion ultimately to the river Styx, which in Greek mythology formed the boundary between the human world and the underworld, and was later incorporated into many Christian depictions of hell, e.g. in the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost.]

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the world > life > death > [noun] > boundary between life and death

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1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 174 And hast thou crost that unknown river, Life's dreary bound!

1843 E. Quincy in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1889) III. 79 She had gone down with him [sc. her late husband] to the brink of the River, and..he had gone over and she returned.

1892 Week (Toronto) 660 [Whittier] had at last crossed the river, on whose brink he had been so long waiting.

1899 Harper's Weekly 28 Oct. 1086/1 A few of General Streight's staff are yet living; most of them have crossed the dark river.

1948 A. Stringer Red Wine of Youth xxiii. 264 Of the group that clustered about the grave, over which one gray-green olive tree leaned, many of the Hood men were themselves destined soon to cross the Dark River.

2001 C. Murphey Simply Living i. 50 Ultimately, they were as helpless as every other human being who has crossed the dark river.

单词	to cross the river
释义	> as lemmas to cross the (dark) river P4. euphemistic. In miscellaneous uses as an image for the boundary between life and death, esp. in to cross the (dark) river: to die, pass away. [With allusion ultimately to the river Styx, which in Greek mythology formed the boundary between the human world and the underworld, and was later incorporated into many Christian depictions of hell, e.g. in the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > boundary between life and death river1793 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 174 And hast thou crost that unknown river, Life's dreary bound! 1843 E. Quincy in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1889) III. 79 She had gone down with him [sc. her late husband] to the brink of the River, and..he had gone over and she returned. 1892 Week (Toronto) 660 [Whittier] had at last crossed the river, on whose brink he had been so long waiting. 1899 Harper's Weekly 28 Oct. 1086/1 A few of General Streight's staff are yet living; most of them have crossed the dark river. 1948 A. Stringer Red Wine of Youth xxiii. 264 Of the group that clustered about the grave, over which one gray-green olive tree leaned, many of the Hood men were themselves destined soon to cross the Dark River. 2001 C. Murphey Simply Living i. 50 Ultimately, they were as helpless as every other human being who has crossed the dark river. extracted from rivern.¹ < as lemmas
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