| 单词 | wonder-literature |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswonder-literature b. = ‘of wonder or wonders’, as wonder-book, wonder-city, wonder-life, wonder-literature, wonder song, wonder-story, wonder-tale, wonder-world (cf. German wunderwelt). ΚΠ 1851 Hawthorne (title) A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, (including ‘Tanglewood Tales’). 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick i. 7 The great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open. 1854 Zoologist 12 4487 A kind of wonder-story in zoology. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind vi. 144 The native wonder-tales must only be told in the winter. 1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. 380 It is known to be only a version of the..wonder-tale told by Herodotus. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 84 The everlasting Wonder Song of Youth! 1896 Tablet 15 Feb. 257 That Asiatic wonder-world, the Indian Empire. 1896 J. Davidson Fleet St. Eclogues 2nd Ser. 78 To wonder-worlds of old romance Our aching thoughts for solace run. 1905 Roosevelt Outdoor Pastimes xi. 339 To read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 14 Sept. 6/2 All our wonder-literature. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 20 Sept. 2/1 Everything in that wonder-city [sc. Fez] was so like a half-remembered dream. 1924 A. J. Small Frozen Gold 223 All the wonder-songs of the South. 1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty iii. 105 With what other numberless wonder-lives of the Saints they wrote. < as lemmas |
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