| 单词 |
quick-sighted |
| 释义 |
quick-sighted
(Stress variable.)
[f. quick sight + -ed2: see quick a. 20 b.]
Having quick sight. (lit. and fig.)
1552Huloet, Quycke syghted, oculatus. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxiii. 17 They doo nought else but dote, that wil bee wel eyed and quicksighted of themselves. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 348 A man right skilfull and deepely quick-sighted. 1677A. Horneck Gt. Law Consid. v. (1704) 253 Such writings, as acute and quick-sighted men had dispersed throughout the world. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 296 The boys, who are quick-sighted as lynxes. 1772Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) I. 400 They are quick-sighted to foresee. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. 93 It was dangerous to..light a fire..where such.. quick⁓sighted enemies were at hand. 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne I. xi. 165 Rose was quicker-sighted.
Hence quickˈsightedness.
1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox iv. 84 The Symptomes, whereby his quick-sightedness read her Disease. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xi. x, Quick-sightedness into evil. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 400 The mere quicksightedness of a pilot in a strange sea. |
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