英语词汇“to hitch one's wagon to a star”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to hitch one's wagon to a star, to set oneself high aspirations; to aspire to another's admirable example.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > aspiration, ambition > aspire [verb (intransitive)]

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to hitch one's wagon to a star1870

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 27 Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works... Work..for..justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Paintings 22 What you mentally or ‘consciously’ desire is nine times out of ten impossible: hitch your wagon to a star, and you'll just stay where you are.

1939 R. Boothby Let. 27 May in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1976) V. li. 1072 One of the few things in my life of which I am proud is that in all matters of major policy during the past 5 years I have hitched by waggon to your star.

1953 E. Waugh Love among Ruins i. 10 ‘The Minister of Welfare and the Minister of Rest and Culture,’ continued the Chief Guide. ‘The stars to which we have hitched our waggon.’

1978 J. Hyams Pool iv. 44 Overweight and sedentary, he was content to hitch his wagon to David's star.

单词	to hitch one's wagon to a star
释义	> as lemmas to hitch one's wagon to a star a. to hitch one's wagon to a star, to set oneself high aspirations; to aspire to another's admirable example. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > aspiration, ambition > aspire [verb (intransitive)] aspirec1460 to hitch one's wagon to a star1870 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 27 Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works... Work..for..justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Paintings 22 What you mentally or ‘consciously’ desire is nine times out of ten impossible: hitch your wagon to a star, and you'll just stay where you are. 1939 R. Boothby Let. 27 May in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1976) V. li. 1072 One of the few things in my life of which I am proud is that in all matters of major policy during the past 5 years I have hitched by waggon to your star. 1953 E. Waugh Love among Ruins i. 10 ‘The Minister of Welfare and the Minister of Rest and Culture,’ continued the Chief Guide. ‘The stars to which we have hitched our waggon.’ 1978 J. Hyams Pool iv. 44 Overweight and sedentary, he was content to hitch his wagon to David's star. extracted from wagonwaggonn. < as lemmas
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