| 釋義 |
waxenpa. p.of wax. grown變成。
△2H.VI.3.2.76:“What? Art thou,like the adder,waxen deaf?”怎么？難道你像毒蛇一樣，變聾了嗎？
waxenvi. grow,increase (with archaic plural endingin-“en”)發(fā)展，增加，增多。
△Mid.2.1.56:“And waxenin their mirth. and neeze,and swear”，（他們）越想越好笑，又是打噴嚏，又是賭咒。
waxena. i.e. soft,impressionable蠟一般的，軟的，容易打上印記的。
△Tw.2.2. 30 (29): “How easy is it for theproper-false/In women's waxen hearts to set theirforms!”i.e. to stamp their images in the soft heartsof women. (The metaphor is from sealing or pressinga figure in wax.)漂亮的騙子要想在女人們蠟一般柔弱的心上留下他們的印象，那是多么容易呀！
waxen epitaph: epitaph cut on wax (most perishablememorial); paper epitaph affixed to the hearse or grave with wax刻在蠟上的墓志銘（極容易消失的紀(jì)念物）,（又解）用蠟粘在靈車(chē)或墳?zāi)股系募埬广憽?br/>△H.V.1.2.231:“orelse our grave./Like Turkish mute,shall have atongueless mouth,/Not worshipped with a waxen ep-itaph.”要不然就讓我的墳?zāi)瓜袷峭炼涞膯“团`，只有一張沒(méi)有舌頭的嘴，連蠟粘的一紙銘文都沒(méi)有。 |