“Nestor”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Nestor

释义

Nestor|ˈnɛstə(r)|
[a. Gr. νέστωρ.]
The name of a Homeric hero famous for his age and wisdom, applied allusively to, or used as a designation of, an old man.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 169 To see..Nestor play at push-pin with the boyes.1614R. Tailor Hog hath lost Pearl iv. in Dodsley O. Pl. (1780) VI. 429 What, weep'st thou, aged Nestor? Take comfort, man.1656Blount Glossogr. s.v., We take it proverbially when we use Nestor for a man of great age.1727Gay Fables i. xliii, Thus spoke the Nestor of the plain.1817J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 120 Some aged Nestors tottered along with the crowd.1883Harper's Mag. May 860/2 This Nestor of art is not forgotten by his old associates.
Comb.1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. v. 6 These grey Locks, the Pursuiuants of death, Nestor-like aged, in an Age of Care.
Hence Neˈstorian a.¹ rare^—1.
1605Timme Quersit. i. xvii. 92 It will suffice..to prolong our dayes to Nestorian yeares.

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