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单词 to catch, have, lose sight of
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to catch, have, lose sight of
c. Without article, chiefly in phrases as to catch, have, lose sight of.
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?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 84 To ȝeoue þeancre brich sichðe inheouene.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 23330 Þe seli sal o þaim ha sight, Bot þof þai se þam [etc.].
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 57 Feith had first siȝte of hym, ac he flegh on syde.
c1425 Eng. Conq. Ireland (1896) 6 Mych hit gladet his hert..þat he myght in fayr weder haue somdell syght of his lond.
c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 49 Our Generall sent Captain Jobson and the master to take sight of such commodities as they weare ladend withall.
1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. ii. iii. 155 That he was able at first sight of them to give each of the beasts a name expressive of its nature.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 105 With sight of Arms and sounds of Trumpets nurst. View more context for this quotation
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xii. 263 Our people pursued him..; but as he had the advantage of being on horseback, he soon lost sight of them.
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 73 Wondering, Until her heart felt pity to the core At sight of such a dismal labouring.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxv. 391 She..caught sight of what was going forward.
1898 F. Montgomery Tony 13 As if he dreaded losing sight of her.
figurative.1737 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 73/1 It would not be much Matter what I began upon, for I would presently lose Sight of that.1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 296 The conjecture was not lost sight of by contemporary or succeeding botanists.1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 42 The higher the view which men take of life, the more they lose sight of their own pleasure or interest.
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