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单词 to kick down the ladder
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to kick down the ladder
c. figurative. Also in †to draw up the ladder after itself [compare French après lui il faut tirer l'échelle] : to be unapproachable. to see through a ladder: to see what is obvious. to kick down the ladder: said of persons who repudiate or ignore the friendships or associations by means of which they have risen in the world.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > object of desire > means of achieving
to draw up the ladder after itselfc1175
the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > be haughty or disdainful [verb (intransitive)] > specifically by ignoring prior friendships
to kick down the ladder1794
society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > elevation or exaltation in rank > means towards achieving
to draw up the ladder after itself1974
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 129 Ðis is sunfulla monna leddre.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 261 Forþi þet dauid hefde þe twa steolen of þis laddre þach he king were þe [read he] clomb upwart.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 246 (MED) Þis is þe laste stape of þe lheddre of perfeccion.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvi. 44 The Fende..leith a laddre there-to, of lesynges aren the ronges.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 39 Men sette moche store by the foresayde sciences and was their opynion that it was the laddre to go vp into alle other sciences.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. i. 55 Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithall The mounting Bullingbrooke ascends my throne. View more context for this quotation
a1625 W. Cope Apol. R. Cecil in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 133 It is not the true way..for men to raise themselves by ladders of detraction.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 87 After the Domo, I saw the Church of the Annunciata, which draweth vp the Ladder after it for neatness.
1794 Ld. Nelson in Disptches & Lett. (ed. 2) I. 449 Duncan is, I think, a little altered; there is nothing like kicking down the ladder a man rises by.
1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician I. i. iv. 74 With these two houses alone I have worked up the medical ladder of my life.
1847 P. J. de Smet Oregon Missions 31 It was on this occasion he conceived the idea of the Catholic ladder—‘a form of instruction which represents on paper the various truths and mysteries of religion in their chronological order’.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs vii. 31 She has struggled so gallantly for polite reputation that she has won it; pitilessly kicking down the ladder as she advanced, degree by degree.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. vi. 71 Can't ye see through a ladder, ye black nigger?
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 73 He now began to climb the ladder of preferment afresh.
1910 Daily Chron. 24 Jan. 8/3 Some kind of ladder of subjects..would be a great gain.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 15 Knowledge that would serve as a ladder to further research.
1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization i. 29 Special attention was..given to such important matters as the breadth of the educational ladder.
1974 ‘W. Haggard’ Kinsmen x. 98 When he'd made a great fortune Duncan Gregg had gone up the ladder a little. But not very much, he was still in trade.
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