“brown study”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

brown study

释义

brown study
[app. originally from brown in sense of ‘gloomy’; but this sense has been to a great extent forgotten. (The conjecture that brown ‘might be’ the Ger. braune ‘brow’ does not require serious notice.)]
A state of mental abstraction or musing: ‘gloomy meditations’ (J.); ‘serious reverie, thoughtful absent-mindedness’ (Webster); now esp. an idle or purposeless reverie.
1532Dice-Play 6 Lack of company will soon lead a man into a brown study.1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 80 You are in some brown study, what colours you might best wear.1607Topsell Serpents 772 Nothing but sadnesse, and heavinesse of minde, brown-studies.1693Oxford-Act 2 Oft wou'd the new created Sophister Where Boy cry'd, want ye any Coffee, Sir? Start from brown-study.1712Steele Spect. No. 286 ⁋3 He often puts me into a brown Study how to answer him.1871Blackie Four Phases i. 13 He had been standing there in a brown study.

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