| 单词 | to open a door to or for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto open a door to or for 3. figurative. A means of entrance or exit (in quot. 1526 a means of closing); esp. in to open a door to or for: to render possible the admission of; to furnish opportunity or facility for; so to close the door upon, and the like. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > means of entrance doorc825 gatec1175 coming ina1398 ingressc1420 entress1481 indraughta1626 gateway1842 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > open by freeing of obstruction > open the way for something to make waya1200 to give gate toc1330 to open a door to or for1670 to open out1789 c825 Vesp. Psalter cxl. 3 Duru ymbstondnisse weo[le]rum minum. 971 Blickl. Hom. 9 Heofonrices duru. c1315 Shoreham 55 Inewyt hys the dore-ward, The doren wyttes fyve. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xvi. 9 A greet dore and euident..is openyd to me. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQviiiv Than shall the dore of discrecion be put to our mouthe. 1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. B.3v The prouidence of God had cloisit ye dur to all thair wickitnes. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xxi. 191 But this doore of hope was fast shut up. 1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 561 To..open a door for the most confounding Atheism to break in. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4342/1 Opening a Door to the French to assault us that Way. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xii. 186 Which left open a door to future negotiation. 1879 T. H. S. Escott England I. 360 The door is opened to a host of frauds. < as lemmas |
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