| 释义 |
ˈheart-blood, heart's-blood
Blood from the heart; blood shed in death, life-blood; hence, vital energy, life.
a1240Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 191 Al min heorte blod to ðe ich offrie. a1300Cursor M. 17136 For þe i gaf mi hert blode. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb. 243 My hartblood is welnigh frorne. 1688Bunyan Heavenly Footman (1886) 151 Thy sins are washed away with His heart-blood. a1723Ld. Thomas & Fair Ellinor xvii. in Allingham Ballad Bk. (1864) 239 O dost thou not see my own heart's blood Run trickling down by my knee? 1815T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 250 The cement of this Union is the heart-blood of every American. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion iii. v. 128 The gush of human heart's-blood comes to dim My crystal eyesight.
b. fig.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. i. 34 The mortall Venus, the heart bloud of beauty. 1627Creswell Sp. in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 506 Justice..is the Life and the Heart⁓blood of the Commonwealth. 1875Lowell Wks. (1890) IV. 397 Creations which throbbed with the very heart's⁓blood of genius. |
