| 单词 | to pass through the eye of a needle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye) (b) In extended use: a minute opening or space; chiefly in similative phrases alluding to or echoing Matthew 19: 24 (see quot. c1384; also Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25). Frequently in to pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye) and variants. Cf. it is easier for a cable to go through the eye of a needle at cable n. 1d, needle eye n. at needle n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] holec725 thirla900 eyeOE opena1200 opening?c1225 overturec1400 overta1425 wideness?c1425 howe1487 hiatus1563 vent1594 apertion1599 ferme1612 notch1615 sluice1648 gape1658 aperture1661 want1664 door1665 hiulcitya1681 to pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye)1720 vista1727 light1776 ope1832 lacuna1872 doughnut hole1886 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > small opening buttonhole1599 snip1600 pinhole1617 pink1667 to pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye)1720 peepa1825 needle-hole1847 keyhole1900 OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xix. 24 Ic eow secge þæt eaðelicre byð þam olfende to ganne þurh nædle eage [L. per foramen acus] þonne se welega on heofona rice ga. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 91 (MED) Hit is as eþe forto bring A camel in to þe neld is ei, As a rich man to bring In to þe blisse þat is an hei. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xix. 24 It is liȝter, or eysier, a camel for to passe thorwȝ a nedelis eiȝe. c1450 (c1440) S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (Longleat) (1904) 54 A chamelle shuld souner passe throwe an nedelles ye. 1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani xxxiv. sig. Rvijv It is more easy for a camell to crepe thrugh the eye of a nedle than a ryche man to entre in to the kyngdome of heuen. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 9 Euery one of them may..daunce the wilde morice in an needles eye. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. i. 82 So much wit..As will stop the eye of Hellens needle. 1622 C. Fitzgeffry Elisha 46 He had learned also how to make the Camell passe through the needles eye, namely, by casting off the bunch on the back. 1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master i. i The invisible rogue threaded a lane as narrow as a needle's eye. 1720 C. Shadwell Sham Prince ii, in Five New Plays 139 My Circumstances are as narrow as the Eye of a Needle. a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. ii. ii. 99 I have heard say of these masters, that they can thrust the point of a sword through the eye of a needle. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch ix. 78 Me and the minister were just argle-bargling some few words on the doctrine of the camel and the eye of the needle. 1872 W. Besant & J. Rice Ready-money Mortiboy I. xiii. 234 A single-hearted..rich man, for whom the needle's eye is as easy to pass, as for the poorest pauper. 1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves i. i. 11 Those roaring lions at Lady Trunion's..had no hope of passing through the needle's eye. 1940 V. W. Brooks New Eng. xx. 414 People solemnly chewed their food very fine and slowly to be slender enough to pass through the eye of the needle. 2012 Church Times 23 Nov. 40/5 There is an aldermanic tomb in a church..that declares that its owner, being both laden with goods and charitable, passed through the eye of a needle. < as lemmas |
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