英语词汇“to milk the bull”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

13. transitive. Proverbial phrase to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram) and variants [ultimately after classical Latin mulgeat hircos (Virgil Eclogues 3. 91); entering the proverb tradition via Erasmus Adagia 132A] : to engage in an enterprise doomed to failure.

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the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > attempt the impossible

to hunt for or catch a hare with a tabor1399

gnaw a file1484

to take hares with foxes1577

to seek a hare in a hen's nest1599

to wash a Negro (white)1611

to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616

to lick a file1647

to set the tortoise to catch the hare1803

to look for a needle in a haystack1855

to bite file1880

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain

to lose or spill one's whilec1175

to speak to the windc1330

tinec1330

to beat the windc1375

lose?a1513

to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529

to lose (one's) oil1548

to plough the sand (also sands)a1565

to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581

to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581

to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600

to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616

to bark against (or at) the moona1641

dead horse1640

to cast stones against the wind1657

dry-ditcha1670

baffle1860

to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933

1616 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching (new ed.) in Wks. (1620) I. 586 That which is said in the prouerb, where one doth milke a goate, another holds vnder a siue.

1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 295 To milke a bull or hope in vaine.

a1656 J. Hales Tracts (1677) ii. 40 That fell out which is in the common proverb, sc. Whilst the one milks the Ram, the other holds under the Sieve.

1836 Tennyson in Mem. (1897) I. 158 To write for people with prefixes to their names is to milk he-goats; there is neither honour nor profit.

1929 N. K. Smith tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason 97 It [sc. an absurd question] not only brings shame on the propounder of the question, but may betray an incautious listener into absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the ludicrous spectacle of one man milking a he-goat and the other holding a sieve underneath.

1986 A. Jefferson & D. Robey Mod. Lit. Theory (ed. 2) v. 143 A last desperate move to find a coherent role for literary and critical theory—‘milking the bull’, as one reviewer..put it.

单词	to milk the bull
释义	> as lemmas to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram) 13. transitive. Proverbial phrase to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram) and variants [ultimately after classical Latin mulgeat hircos (Virgil Eclogues 3. 91); entering the proverb tradition via Erasmus Adagia 132A] : to engage in an enterprise doomed to failure. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > attempt the impossible to hunt for or catch a hare with a tabor1399 gnaw a file1484 to take hares with foxes1577 to seek a hare in a hen's nest1599 to wash a Negro (white)1611 to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616 to lick a file1647 to set the tortoise to catch the hare1803 to look for a needle in a haystack1855 to bite file1880 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain to lose or spill one's whilec1175 to speak to the windc1330 tinec1330 to beat the windc1375 lose?a1513 to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529 to lose (one's) oil1548 to plough the sand (also sands)a1565 to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581 to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581 to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600 to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616 to bark against (or at) the moona1641 dead horse1640 to cast stones against the wind1657 dry-ditcha1670 baffle1860 to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933 1616 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching (new ed.) in Wks. (1620) I. 586 That which is said in the prouerb, where one doth milke a goate, another holds vnder a siue. 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 295 To milke a bull or hope in vaine. a1656 J. Hales Tracts (1677) ii. 40 That fell out which is in the common proverb, sc. Whilst the one milks the Ram, the other holds under the Sieve. 1836 Tennyson in Mem. (1897) I. 158 To write for people with prefixes to their names is to milk he-goats; there is neither honour nor profit. 1929 N. K. Smith tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason 97 It [sc. an absurd question] not only brings shame on the propounder of the question, but may betray an incautious listener into absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the ludicrous spectacle of one man milking a he-goat and the other holding a sieve underneath. 1986 A. Jefferson & D. Robey Mod. Lit. Theory (ed. 2) v. 143 A last desperate move to find a coherent role for literary and critical theory—‘milking the bull’, as one reviewer..put it. extracted from milkv. < as lemmas
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