| 单词 | to wink with the one or the other eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wink with the one or the other eye ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > aim > by closing one eye winkc1340 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [verb (intransitive)] > move eyes > close eyes > one eye winkc1340 c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 180 Homme doile clune, M[an] with ee wynkyth. c1460 Frere & Boye (Ritson) 89 Yf thou shote and wynke, The prycke thow shalt hytte. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 967 in Poems (1981) 40 His hude he drew far doun attoure his ene, And winkand with ane eye furth he wend. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 782/2 He that wynketh with one eye and loketh with the tother, I wyll nat trust hym and he were my brother. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Collimare, to wynke with one eye. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. xxii. f. 319 Mooue the Transame..vntill you may see with the one eye (winking with the other) the one end of the Transame to meete iust with the Centre..of the sunne. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 20 The Arimaspi (who from wincking when they shoot are said to be Monoculi). a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 205 As Men, that wink with one Eye, see more true, And take their Aim much better, than with two. < as lemmas |
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