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

b. (Said of a literary composition). to smell of (or †taste) the lamp: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > be laboured or pedantic

to smell of the candle, lamp, oil1542

to smell of (or taste) the lamp1579

to smell of the inkhorn1587

to smell of oil1646

1579 T. North tr. Demosthenes in Plutarch Lives (1595) 889 Pytheas..taunting him on a time, tolde him, his reasons smelled of the lampe. Yea, replied Demosthenes sharply againe: so is there great difference, Pytheas, betwixt thy labor and myne by lampelight.

1615 in Breton's Charac. Essaies (Grosart) 4/1 He that shall read thy characters..must say they are well written. They taste the lampe.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xx. 309 That dry..pedantic..Style which smells of the Lamp and the College.

1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2883 I asked [Lord Chatham]..how..he could always speak with so much extempore eloquence..without its smelling of the lamp.

1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. iv. 91 Hardly any poet smells of the lamp less disagreeably than Spenser.

单词	to smell of the lamp
释义	> as lemmas to smell of (or †taste) the lamp b. (Said of a literary composition). to smell of (or †taste) the lamp: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > be laboured or pedantic to smell of the candle, lamp, oil1542 to smell of (or taste) the lamp1579 to smell of the inkhorn1587 to smell of oil1646 1579 T. North tr. Demosthenes in Plutarch Lives (1595) 889 Pytheas..taunting him on a time, tolde him, his reasons smelled of the lampe. Yea, replied Demosthenes sharply againe: so is there great difference, Pytheas, betwixt thy labor and myne by lampelight. 1615 in Breton's Charac. Essaies (Grosart) 4/1 He that shall read thy characters..must say they are well written. They taste the lampe. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xx. 309 That dry..pedantic..Style which smells of the Lamp and the College. 1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2883 I asked [Lord Chatham]..how..he could always speak with so much extempore eloquence..without its smelling of the lamp. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. iv. 91 Hardly any poet smells of the lamp less disagreeably than Spenser. extracted from lampn.¹ < as lemmas
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