单词 | under the sun |
释义 | > as lemmasunder (or beneath) the sun a. under (or beneath) the sun. extracted from sunn.1 (a) On earth, in the world, in existence. Frequently in hyperbolic expressions emphasizing the uniqueness or striking number, extent, etc., of something. Formerly also without definite article. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [adverb] > situation here971 under the sunOE on (the) grounda1000 an-earthOE on (the) moulda1350 OE Andreas (1932) 1013 Gode þancade þæs ðe hie onsunde æfre moston geseon under sunnan. c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 34 (MED) Þet is under sunne þinge me laðest. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 912 Þar beoð men þat lutel kunne Of songe þat is bineoðe þe sunne [a1300 Jesus Oxf. vnder sunne]. c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) l. 811 (MED) Rouland..wos þe gladdeste man vnder sonne. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 57 To alle crystyn men vndir sunne. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 4300 Na supowell vndire son seke we vs neuire. 1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 178 Moste aunterus and able Wndir the soun that beris helme or scheild. 1560 W. Fitzwilliam Let. in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1863) VIII. 16 There was not under the sun a more craftier vipered undermining generation. a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqq2v/1 There fights no braver souldier under Sun, gentlemen. 1682 T. D'Urfey Royalist iv. ii. 48 Why he's a pushing Captain, that will fight any thing under the Sun upon any Cause. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 6. ⁋1 I know no Evil under the Sun so great. 1793 M. Barker Welsh Story I. xv. 217 Women are got into a most horrid way of stretching their mouths open, and squalling out what nobody can understand; and quavering, like nothing under the sun. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxiii. 102 While we breathe beneath the sun . View more context for this quotation a1862 H. D. Thoreau Yankee in Canada (1866) ii. 22 What under the sun they were placed there for..was not apparent. 1935 H. Edib Clown & his Daughter xxiv. 130 Who would believe that any city under the sun could produce such crowds, such colour! 2015 Radio Times 11 July (South/West ed.) 103/1 ‘I've got access to every kind of music under the sun,’ he marvels. (b) there is nothing new under the sun and variants: whatever may seem new or original is unlikely to be a genuine innovation; there is never or rarely anything new or original in the world. Later also in allusive statements asserting that something is a genuine innovation.Sometimes, esp. in early use, with allusion to Ecclesiastes 1:9 (1:10 in some versions); cf. quot. a1382. [In early use after post-classical Latin nihil sub sole novum (Vulgate) and perhaps also after German nichts Neues unter der Sonne (Luther 1524; compare quot. c1545), both after an expression in biblical Hebrew.] ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Eccles. i. 10 No thing vnder the sunne newe. c1545 Bokes Salomon f. xxxix The thynge that hath bene done, is done agayne, there is no new thyng vnder the sonne. 1599 R. Pont Newe Treat. Right Reckoning of Yeares 66 There is nothing new vnder the Sun, but that which is newe, hath bene in the ages before, and the like shall be hereafter. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. i. viii. 26 These are new things vnder the Sunne, and this a new interpretation, which himselfe prefaceth with Papae! nouam & inauditam exponendi rationem! a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) i. 2 And what is done, is what is to be done; There's nothing that is new beneath the Sunne. 1737 A. Pope 2nd Epist. of 2nd Bk. Horace, Imitated 9 He walks, an Object new beneath the Sun! 1790 Lady's Mag. June 283/1 That there is nothing new under the sun, is an opinion which will, perhaps, be readily taken up by all who are deeply conversant with ancient history. 1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 362 There is nothing new under the sun—an observation which is indeed verificatory of itself. 1869 Galaxy Feb. 307/1 Nothing is new under the sun—not ‘waterfalls’, crinoline, paniers, not rouge and pearl powder, [etc.]. 1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe iv. 218 He said there was nothing new under the sun: and that showed you the kind of twister he was. 1938 Amer. Home Oct. 15/1 Lounge beds are something new under the sun and something that will be appreciated by everyone who lives in an apartment. 2017 Irish Independent (Nexis) 3 June (Review section) 15 As Sherlock Holmes once observed, there's nothing new under the sun. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。