“work、mistress”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

work-mistress

释义

ˈwork-ˌmistress
[f. work n. + mistress, after prec.]
A woman who controls or superintends work: only fig., chiefly of Nature (personified).
1568Hacket tr. Thevet's New found World lxviii. 108 b, Nature the great workemistresse.1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 337, I assure you Venus is the work-mistresse of mutuall concord.a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 60 God,..by an evident manifestation, that the same work which she acted, was a well-pleasing service of his own..had decreed the protection of the work-Mistresse.1675A. Browne Appendix Art Paint. 22 Since Nature, that Cunning Work-Mistress, is so extremely Various in her Representations.1877Carpenter tr. Tiele's Outl. Hist. Relig. 224 Athena, the goddess of art, the ‘workmistress’ (Ergané).

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