单词 | to lose sight of |
释义 | > as lemmasto lose sight of b. To fail to keep in sight. Also, to lose sight of (literal and figurative): see sight n.1 Also occasionally, to cease to hear (poetic); †to fail to follow (a person) in argument (obsolete or archaic). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > prevent from seeing [verb (transitive)] > lose sight of lose1589 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of ear > disordered hearing > have a hearing disorder [verb (transitive)] > lose hearing lose1832 1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 789 The master..was afrayd his men would shape some contrarie course while he was a sleep, and so he should loose vs. a1592 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 349 This is our life while we enjoy it, we lose it like the Sunne which flies swifter than an arrow, and yet no man perceives that it moves. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 11 Wee once more got sight of the Carracke, and lost her for euer, in two houres after. 1640 J. Shirley Constant Maid iv. F2v I cannot see i' th' darke with spectacles, And mine owne eyes ha' lost him o' the suddaine. a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 3 If wee should chance at any time to loose each other, vpon sight againe [etc.]. 1725 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 173 I thought, upon infinity, he was running into Sir Isaac Newton's notion of infinite space being the divine sensorium,..but, indeed, many times I lost him. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women lxix, in Poems (new ed.) 139 Losing her carol I stood pensively. < as lemmas |
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