| 单词 |
sharpsighted |
| 释义 |
sharpsighted, a.|ʃɑːpˈsaɪtɪd|
[f. sharp a. + sighted a.]
1. Having acute or quick sight.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. Ep. Ded. 2 Though he were otherwise as sharpsighted as Argus. 1648Crashaw Delights of Muses (1904) 156 Sharp-sighted as the Eagles eye. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1859) II. 445 He often trembled lest some future explorer of manuscripts might be found as sharpsighted as himself. 1832H. Martineau Life in Wilds v. 62 So sharpsighted and timid are these birds. 1905A. R. Wallace My Life xiv. 209 The Welshman is by no means sharp-sighted when his cattle are enjoying them⁓selves in a neighbour's field.
2. fig. Having acuteness of mental vision.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. ix. 49 Because we be not sharpesighted ynough to spie out the thinges that God perceiueth. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesm. i. (1841) I. 6 For want of this knowledge, he is liable to be imposed upon..by the sharp-sighted World. 1869Trollope He knew, etc. xiv. (1878) 82 [She] was sharpsighted and clear-witted.
Hence sharpˈsightedness.
1647Trapp Comm. Matt. xxiv. 28. 553 Eagles the Saints are called,..for their sharp-sightednesse. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxvii, She had never felt so satisfied with her own sharp-sightedness as she did that day. |
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