英语词汇“looking-glass”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	looking-glass
释义	Trends of looking glass View usage for: looking glass also looking-glass Word forms: plural looking glasses countable noun A looking glass is a mirror. [old-fashioned] looking glass in British English noun 1. a mirror, esp a ladies' dressing mirror adjective looking-glass 2. with normal or familiar circumstances reversed; topsy-turvy a looking-glass world Word origin sense 2 in allusion to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass looking-glass in British English (ˈlʊkɪŋɡlɑːs) adjective with normal or familiar circumstances reversed; topsy-turvy a looking-glass world looking glass in American English a (glass) mirror Examples of 'looking glass' in a sentence looking glass She danced up to the little looking-glass and peered into it. LM Montgomery Anne of Green Gables (1872) The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. William Thackeray Vanity Fair (1837) Then he picked up a looking-glass, studied his spotty face in it with inordinate pleasure and broke into guffaws. Paul Hyland RALEGH'S LAST JOURNEY: A Tale of Madness, Vanity and Treachery (2003) Her skin has been smoothed and buffed to shiny perfection, to the point where it reflects light like a looking-glass. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Definition of 'looking glass'
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