| 单词 | to open a gate to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto open a gate to a. A means of entrance or exit; said e.g. of the five senses. Phrase to open a gate for (also to open a gate to): to provide facility or opportunity for. the ivory gate, the gate of horn: (in Greek legend) those through which false and true dreams respectively come forth. Cf. door n. 3. 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 > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > means of exit outgangOE gatec1175 outletc1275 outgoinga1387 water gatea1393 ish14.. issuec1400 outgatec1485 ushing1489 outway1571 egress1660 utterance1662 débouché1760 debouch1813 gateway1842 outgo1869 outfall1883 outcome1885 the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > make easy or easier > facilitate the progress of unloukOE to open a gate for1548 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > mythological portal of horny gate (also port)1605 the gate of horn1831 the ivory gate1870 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 127 Hwet beoð þas .vii. ȝeate? Ðet beoð ure eȝan and ure neose and ure muð and ure earan. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 29 And thus min eye is made the gate, Through which the deinties of my thought Of lust ben to min herte brought. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10146 Þat mari, þat was þe gat [Trin. Cambr., Gött. ȝate; c1460 Laud yate] of vr merci. c1416 T. Hoccleve Poems (1892) 62 Benigne lige Lord! o hauene and yate Of our confort. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 274 Þise arn þe wyndowys of þe body, & þe gatys of þe soule. 1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) ii. sig. Aij/1 The yate of grace is opened to al that aske thenne to entree. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBiiv The hearyng, the touchyng, the tastynge, and the smellyng: whiche with the syght be as fyue gates, by the whiche the ennemy sendeth in..[his] messages..to the soule. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxxvij Although the gate of a conquest were opened, yet it was shut agayn. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 105 For thee ile locke vp all the gates of Loue. View more context for this quotation 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 690 Auria had done nothing but wisely and politickly, in..opening a gate for a long war. 1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 46 What sweete contentments doth the Soule enjoy by the senses? They are the Gates and Windowes of its Knowledge. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 98 The Fauoring too much of good Intentions, which openeth the Gate to Conceits and Nouelties. 1737 R. Glover Leonidas i. 153 To guard the gates of Greece, which open stand. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 9 The Bosphorus and the Hellespont may be considered as the two gates of Constantinople. 1831 T. B. Macaulay Hampden in Ess. (1880) 204 Then he [sc. Laud] dreamed that he turned Papist; of all his dreams the only one, we suspect, which came through the gate of horn. 1866 B. Taylor Wayside Dream in Poems 74 The gates of Slumber fold. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. Apol. Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the ivory gate. < as lemmas |
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