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waxenpa. p.of wax. grown变成。 △2H.VI.3.2.76:“What? Art thou,like the adder,waxen deaf?”怎么?难道你像毒蛇一样,变聋了吗?
waxenvi. grow,increase (with archaic plural endingin-“en”)发展,增加,增多。 △Mid.2.1.56:“And waxenin their mirth. and neeze,and swear”,(他们)越想越好笑,又是打喷嚏,又是赌咒。
waxena. i.e. soft,impressionable蜡一般的,软的,容易打上印记的。 △Tw.2.2. 30 (29): “How easy is it for theproper-false/In women's waxen hearts to set theirforms!”i.e. to stamp their images in the soft heartsof women. (The metaphor is from sealing or pressinga figure in wax.)漂亮的骗子要想在女人们蜡一般柔弱的心上留下他们的印象,那是多么容易呀! waxen epitaph: epitaph cut on wax (most perishablememorial); paper epitaph affixed to the hearse or grave with wax刻在蜡上的墓志铭(极容易消失的纪念物),(又解)用蜡粘在灵车或坟墓上的纸墓铭。 △H.V.1.2.231:“orelse our grave./Like Turkish mute,shall have atongueless mouth,/Not worshipped with a waxen ep-itaph.”要不然就让我的坟墓像是土耳其的哑巴奴隶,只有一张没有舌头的嘴,连蜡粘的一纸铭文都没有。 |