英语词汇“to cast false colours upon”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P4. to cast (also put etc.) false (also handsome, etc.) colours upon: to present information or depict people, events, etc., in a particular light or with a particular slant or purpose.

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1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xv. sig. Hv He wyll..sette a false colour of lernyng on propre wittes, whiche wyll be wasshed away with one shoure of raine.

1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie f. 35 To set a good coulour vppon this holy protestation they [sc. Lutherans] saye farder..That all bisshops..be all without lerning.

1648 R. Younge Cause & Cure Ignorance xxvii. 65 Prejudice casteth a false colour upon the best actions.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 540 He puts a false colour upon one part of his Argument.

1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 21 Charg'd with casting very odious and black Colours upon the Dissenters.

1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews xvi. vii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 520 Desirous to put handsome colours on the death of Mariamne.

1808 J. Bowden Apostolic Origin of Episcopacy Asserted II. xiv. 14 There is, Sir, nothing in this world easier, than to misstate facts and superinduce false colours upon truth.

1898 M. E. Bennett Gentle Art of Pleasing v. 101 One by one he sketches them to the life, leaves out no marks the fray of living has left upon them, puts no false colors upon their sins or ignorances.

1994 C. E. V. Nixon & B. S. Rodgers In Praise Later Rom. Emperors 356 Cicero..deplored tarting up one's speeches by, as it were, smearing false colours upon them.

单词	to cast false colours upon
释义	> as lemmas to cast (also put etc.) false (also handsome, etc.) colours upon P4. to cast (also put etc.) false (also handsome, etc.) colours upon: to present information or depict people, events, etc., in a particular light or with a particular slant or purpose. ΚΠ 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xv. sig. Hv He wyll..sette a false colour of lernyng on propre wittes, whiche wyll be wasshed away with one shoure of raine. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie f. 35 To set a good coulour vppon this holy protestation they [sc. Lutherans] saye farder..That all bisshops..be all without lerning. 1648 R. Younge Cause & Cure Ignorance xxvii. 65 Prejudice casteth a false colour upon the best actions. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 540 He puts a false colour upon one part of his Argument. 1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 21 Charg'd with casting very odious and black Colours upon the Dissenters. 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews xvi. vii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 520 Desirous to put handsome colours on the death of Mariamne. 1808 J. Bowden Apostolic Origin of Episcopacy Asserted II. xiv. 14 There is, Sir, nothing in this world easier, than to misstate facts and superinduce false colours upon truth. 1898 M. E. Bennett Gentle Art of Pleasing v. 101 One by one he sketches them to the life, leaves out no marks the fray of living has left upon them, puts no false colors upon their sins or ignorances. 1994 C. E. V. Nixon & B. S. Rodgers In Praise Later Rom. Emperors 356 Cicero..deplored tarting up one's speeches by, as it were, smearing false colours upon them. extracted from colourcolorn.¹ < as lemmas
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