单词 | to look away |
释义 | > as lemmasto look away to look away 1. intransitive. To direct one's gaze away from someone or something; to avert one's eyes, esp. so as to overlook or ignore something deliberately (also figurative). Cf. to look the other way at Phrases 1b(j). ΚΠ a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 47 (MED) Ac me þincþ ðat tu lokest aweiward & heuiliche latst.] c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 133 Achilles..Woundit hym wickedly as he away loked. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K7v The vglie monster death..Who flies away at euery glance I giue, And when I look away, comes stealing on. a1616 J. Smith Substance & Pith Prayer 139 in Essex Dove (1629) When he [sc. Peter] lookt away from Christ..by and by he began to sinke. 1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master ii. i. 24 Why do you look away, dearest Miss? 1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. vii. iii. 37 ‘Oh go!’ cried Cecilia, looking away from him while she spoke. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 27 I..look away from Earth which doth convict me. 1872 C. D. Warner Saunterings 203 If I looked away an instant, some urchin would seize my horse's bridle. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xii. 202 ‘Gracious alive!’ cried Mrs. Honeychurch. ‘Whoever were those unfortunate people? Oh, dears, look away!’ 1966 E. Amadi Concubine xxiii. 204 Wakiri looked away when he saw tears running down his friend's cheeks. 1986 W. E. B. Griffin Generals 256 Their eyes met. She fought the temptation to look away. 2014 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 26 July (News Review section) 42 The killing and the dying goes on... And the rest of the world, not caring, looks away. 2. transitive. poetic. To spend or wear (something) out in gazing; to remove or forget with a look or a period of looking (cf. away adv. 3). Now rare. ΚΠ 1659 W. Montagu Shepheard's Paradise v. 153 If I durst so soon believe my eyes, they had already looked away my pretence, but they are too partial to me to believe so soon. 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius ii. 21 I could hang for ever on thy Arms, And look away my life into thy Eyes. 1744 Norfolk Poet. Misc. I. 134 I'll gaze on thy Beauty—and look away Care. 1780 T. Chatterton Resignation in H. Croft Love & Madness 158 Omniscience could the danger see, And mercy look the cause away. 1831 Olio 10 Dec. 361/2 Those eyes which look away all human ill. 1865 A. B. Edwards Ballads 50 Pour my passion forth in sighs, And look my life away. 1955 E. Bishop Poems: North & South 65 Why couldn't we have seen this old Nativity..and looked and looked our infant sight away. < as lemmas |
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