| 单词 | to see the light of day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto see the light of day (b) to see the light of day: to come into the world, to be born; (hence) to be brought out, published, broadcast, etc. ΚΠ 1807 D. French tr. Voltaire Henriade viii. 167 'Twas youthful Egmont, full of martial fire, Th' ambitious son of an ill-fortuned sire. In Bruxells first he saw the light of day, What time fair Belgium mourned a tyrant's sway. 1933 D. Thomas Let. Nov. (1987) 43 I first saw the light of day in a Glamorgan villa.., amid the terrors of the Welsh accent and the smoke of the tinplate stacks. 1972 N. R. Peirce Mountain States Amer. Acknowledgments 293 Without the cheery and efficient services of my typist, Merciel Dixon, the manuscript would never have seen the light of day at all. 2019 Independent (Nexis) 15 Mar. This time, off-screen distractions derailed it before these new (much better) episodes saw the light of day. < as lemmas |
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