looking-glass

參見：looking glass 和 Lookingglass

英語

其他形式

looking glass

A looking-glass, or mirror
鏡子（義項1）

The statue Alice through the Looking-Glass in the grounds of Guildford Castle in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK, which depicts the character Alice from Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking-Glass (1871) entering the looking-glass world by passing through a looking-glass
英国英格兰萨里郡吉尔福德市吉尔福德城堡内的《爱丽丝镜中奇遇记》雕像，描绘了路易斯·卡羅1871年出版的《愛麗絲鏡中奇遇》中的人物爱丽丝穿过镜子进入镜中世界的过程

詞源

(通往奇异世界的途径)：出自路易斯·卡羅著作《愛麗絲鏡中奇遇》（Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There）。

發音

(標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈlʊkɪŋ ˌɡlɑːs/
(通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈlʊkɪŋ ˌɡlæs/
音頻 (澳大利亞)： (檔案)
斷字：look‧ing glass

名詞

looking-glass (複數 looking-glasses)

(過時) mirror (“鏡子”)之同義詞（自1520年代）
- 1661，John Reeve, Lodowick Muggleton [i.e., Lodowicke Muggleton]，A Divine Looking-glass: Or, The Third and Last Testament of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, […]，[London]: Printed […] and reprinted for Lodowick Muggleton, […], →OCLC, title page:
  A Divine Looking-Glaſs: Or, The third and laſt Teſtament of our Lord, JESUS CHRIST, […] [title]
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- 1711，[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]，A Pair of Spectacles for Oliver’s Looking-glass Maker，London: Printed, and sold by J. Baker, […], →OCLC，頁 4:
  Even ſo the account of your Looking-glaſs puts us in hopes of ſome mighty Diſcoveries to be made by the Help of it, and at the ſame time, ſeems to carry its own Contradiction along with it; for a Pocket Looking-glaſs, is, doubtleſs, a moſt prepoſterous Help for taking a Clear View of a Great Coloſſus, unleſs it be one of thoſe, that contract the largeſt Bodies into a ſmall compaſs; and then it may give us an Idea of the Proportions, but not a clearer View of all the Partcular Beauties or Deformities.
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- 1756，James Ferguson，Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles:
  This ruggedneſs of the Moon's ſurface is of great uſe to us, by reflecting the Sun's light to all ſides: for if the Moon were ſmooth and poliſhed like a looking-glaſs, or covered with water, ſhe could never diſtribute the Sun's light all round; […]
  月球表面的凹凸不平对我们来说非常有用，它可以将太阳光反射到各个方向：如果月球像镜子一样光滑，或者被水覆盖，它就无法将太阳光反射到各个方向； […]
- 1812 November，“Art. I. Memoires de Frederique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Bareith, Sœur de Frederic le Grand. Ecrits de sa Main. 8vo. 2 Tomes. Brunswick, Paris, et Londres. 1812.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal，卷 XX, 期 XL, Edinburgh: Printed by David Willison, for Archibald Constable and Company, […], and White, Cochrane & Co., […], →OCLC，頁 274:
  He [Frederick William I of Prussia] commanded his physician to tell him exactly how long he had to live; and when he answered, ‘about half an hour,’ he asked for a looking-glass, and said, with a smile, that he did look ill enough, and saw ‘qu’il ferait une vilaine grimace en mourant.’
  他（普鲁士国王腓特烈·威廉一世）命令医生告诉他到底还能活多久；当医生回答“大约半个小时”时，他要了一面镜子，笑着说，他看上去确实病得很重，看来“他死的時候會很難看”。
- 1828 September，“Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. [Captain Clapperton.]”, in The Monthly Magazine or British Register of Literature, Sciences, and the Belles-lettres，卷 VI (New Series), 期 33, London: Published by Geo[rge] B[yrom] Whittaker, […], →OCLC，頁 324:
  [T]wo days before Captain [Hugh] Clapperton died, he requested to be shaved, as he was too weak to sit up. After the operation, he asked for a looking-glass, remarked that he was "doing better," and should certainly "get over it." The morning on which he died, he breathed loud, became restless, and shortly afterwards expired in [Richard] Lander's arms.
  [休]克拉珀顿上尉去世前两天，他请求剃须，因为他太虚弱了，无法坐起来。手术后，他要了一面镜子，说他“情况好多了”，肯定会“好起来”。去世那天早上，他呼吸急促，变得焦躁不安，不久后在[理查德] 兰德的怀里去世了。
- 1845，Walter Bernan [pseudonym; Robert Meikleham]，“Essay VIII”, in On the History and Art of Warming and Ventilation Rooms and Buildings […]，卷 I, London: George Bell, […], →OCLC, footnote †，頁 225:
  Many sorts of glass were in the market, called Lambeth or Ratcliffe, Normandy, German, white and green, Dutch, Newcastle, Staffordshire, and Bristol glass, looking glass and jealous glass. […] Looking glass plates were sometimes used in windows.
  市场上有许多种玻璃，称为兰贝斯玻璃或拉特克利夫玻璃、诺曼底玻璃、德国玻璃、白色和绿色玻璃、荷兰玻璃、纽卡斯尔玻璃、斯塔福德郡玻璃和布里斯托尔玻璃、窥镜和百叶玻璃。 […] 窥镜板有时用于窗户。
- 1847 January – 1848 July，William Makepeace Thackeray，“In which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign”, in Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero，London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版於 1848, →OCLC，頁 9:
  
  The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
  世界是一面镜子，每个人眼前都映出自己的容颜。
- 1856 March 17–18，Ford Madox Brown，“1856 [chapter title]”, in The Diary of Ford Madox Brown (Studies in British Art)，New Haven, Conn., London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 出版於 1981, →ISBN，頁 167:
  17th Drew in the dead body in the corrected sketch in Pen & Ink. It is rather dreary. Worked at sundries from Self in the looking glass (8 hours). / 18th worked all day from self in looking glass in shirts & draws. […]
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- 1963，Margery Allingham，“Foreword: The Turk Street Mile”, in The China Governess: A Mystery，London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC，頁 18:
  Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
  一只活着的动物所能做的一切，包括毁坏和“亵渎”床和墙壁，都已经做过了。 […] 厨房里的一罐面粉被扔在镜子上，像被踩过的雪一样铺在一件体面的蓝色西装的残骸上。那西装放在一个塑料衣柜的废墟上，内衬已被撕掉了。
通往奇异世界的途径
近義詞：rabbit hole
- 2016年7月29日，Paul Krugman，“Who loves America?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  It has been quite a week in politics. […] I know that some Republicans feel as if they've fallen through the looking glass.
  这一周的政治形势相当严峻。 […] 我知道一些共和党人感觉自己好像已经跌入镜中世界了。

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