| 单词 | weird sister |
| 例句 | When he first encounters the weird sisters and hears that he shall be king, his buddy Banquo asks, "Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair?" 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z The dancers began in witchy black wigs like the three weird sisters, and made excellent use of ICA’s three connected rooms, beckoning the crowd to follow them around corners and back again. 'Experiment I' turns a literary event into performance art 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z At first, the spooky and delightful weird sisters—Shakespeare’s poetry always extended beautifully to the supernatural—feel like the “new” thing here, given their arresting choreography. Getting 'Macbeth' Right 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z A gang of weird sisters still roams the foggy Scottish moors, periodically speaking in riddles and giving Macbeth the evil eye. Review: ‘Macbeth,’ Starring Michael Fassbender, Awash in Gorgeous Carnage 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z For me, it was more about if those weird sisters were around, what would they be doing? Neil LaBute talks "House of Darkness," his modern take on "Dracula" that flips the power dynamic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The weird sisters, incarnated in the mesmerizing, smoky-voiced performance art of Kathryn Hunter, seem as much a fact of the natural world as the crows circling the gunmetal sky. What makes Joel Coen's Shakespeare unique: His 'Macbeth' is haunted by other movies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Those familiar with “Macbeth” will instantly recognize the play’s three witches, embodied here by the great Kathryn Hunter as Shakespeare’s weird sisters rolled into a startling, unsettling, utterly glorious one-woman chorus. Review | Joel Coen’s ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ is a minimalist, maximalist masterpiece 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The most famous of this type must be Shakespeare’s weird sisters from Macbeth. From Circe to Clinton: why powerful women are cast as witches 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z At the time, just a child himself, he dismissed the signs as typical of his “weird sister.” An N.F.L. Executive, Honoring His Lost Sister, Speaks Out About Anorexia 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z But nothing is likely to stop the march of witches, warlocks and weird sisters each autumn. The Meaning of the Word 'Witch' Has Changed. That's Complicated for Salem 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The supernatural activities of the three weird sisters sets the ominous shadow for the tale, and encourages Macbeth to war. Kardashian v Capulet - Who is the better role model? - BBC News 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Three of the stories include ghosts, while in "Macbeth" the weird sisters offer an opportunity for a most original treatment of the supernatural. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z At 12 m., a rushing and bustling was heard, and down the kitchen chimney tumbled the three weird sisters, finding everything ready for their midnight operations.... Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z It struck me as a good description of that mystic link between mortality and the weird sisters; and, at the same time, in appropriate language to the person addressed. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Around the kettle danced three terrifying figures who might easily have been identified as the weird sisters who appeared to the ill-starred Macbeth. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z Out of this ordinary domestic witchcraft the mightier poet raised “the weird sisters,” That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth, And yet are on’t, nameless, bodiless, vanishing shadows! Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Another storied stone is called the Witches’ Stone, because it marks the place near Forres where Macbeth is said to have encountered the weird sisters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z And now it's done to a turn, and the weird sisters have done what they could for the family.' Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The weird sisters remained at liberty, and the wildest reports flew about. Deep Moat Grange Pausing in her grotesque dance, one of the weird sisters seized a cup from a number of others which stood on a small table near the tripod. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z The young people voted the party a "grand success," and the two weird sisters the most bewitching of all the witches. Harper's Round Table, October 22, 1895 He said it reminded him of Boswell and himself when they stopped a night, as they imagined, where the weird sisters appeared to Macbeth. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Near it is the dwelling of the Norns, fates or weird sisters, who establish laws and uphold them by their judgments, and allot to every man his span of life. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine. There Will Be School Tomorrow The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about; Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad He cannot, like "the weird sisters" of Greek story, lend out his eye for others to see with. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Moreover, while the weird sisters were at their spells they tumbled down from off their high witch-mount, and brake both their backs. The Story Of Frithiof The Bold 1875 The weird sisters were forms of awe and magnitude proportionate to the woes they dealt out, to the destiny they wove. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida The weird sisters are making a charm in the beginning of the play. There Will Be School Tomorrow Readers of Norse mythology may suppose that these weird sisters were dim, vague, shadowy creatures; but they are mistaken. Second Book of Tales The rites and incantations employed, and the numerous other articles added to the poisonous cauldron, may remind one of the weird sisters’ concoction in Macbeth. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas The passage that follows Banquo's words to Macbeth is difficult to interpret: I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have show'd some truth. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth His lines on Shakspere recall Collins in their insistence upon the "elvish" things in the plays; "The Tempest," "Midsummer Night's Dream," the weird sisters in "Macbeth," Ophelia's songs, the melancholy Jacques. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century A moment after a carriage drove into the court, and from it dismounted the brother-in-law sot and her weird sister; for indeed she was a very Hecate in looks and mischief. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest This part of his task performed, he hurried again to Covent Garden, being transformed on the road from Sir Philip back again to the weird sister. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character From Urd comes our word "weird," and the weird sisters of Shakespeare. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The sudden appearance of him who answered the incantations of the weird sisters could not produce a greater panic. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 As these witches were the countrywomen of the weird sisters in Macbeth, the reader may be desirous to hear some of their spells, and of the poetry by which they were accompanied and enforced. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Gray, in his ode of The Fatal Sisters, has embodied the Scandinavian myth in which the twelve weird sisters, the Valkiriur, weave "the crimson web of war" between the rising and setting of the sun. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 The question relating to the text will only be noticed so far as it is inextricably involved with the argument respecting the nature of the weird sisters. Elizabethan Demonology That moment the bowl was broken, but the weird sisters knew not the truth. Darrel of the Blessed Isles The Gothic wildness of Shakespeare's "weird sisters" will thence be better appreciated.—Ed. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces "Tyranny, imbecility, absurdity, and infamy," he continued, "all unite to dance, like the weird sisters, about this crime." Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 The three weird sisters are ghostly and awful—the one who stands behind, holding the distaff, almost frightful. Views a-foot It presupposes that the "weird sisters" are on the stage as well as the witches. Elizabethan Demonology To Lady Macbeth from the moment she has received her husband's letter telling of the prophecy of the weird sisters, murder occurs as a means of accomplishing their prediction. A Book of Remarkable Criminals I dared not wait to see him return, for I feared to see those weird sisters. Dracula Verily, the weird sisters could not have chosen a fitter abode. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 A caricature was circulated representing the Lord Chancellor, Pitt, and Dundas, as the three "weird sisters" gazing at the full moon. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire The only vestige of a difficulty, therefore, that remains is the use of the term "weird sisters" in describing the witches. Elizabethan Demonology Suddenly there stood before us a creature, a woman, who, save for the colour of her skin, might have been the original of any one of Macbeth's "weird sisters." Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Nine breast-pins were promised, and the weird sisters filed out again. Roughing It, Part 2. They called it Elizabeth; and the black man and weird sisters stuck thorns into various parts of the luckless image. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 355, February 7, 1829 The part in darkness contained the king's profile; on the other side was a head, resplendent in light, graciously gazing at the weird sisters; that was the queen. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire Go ask the weird sisters upon whose spindles hang the threads of every human life! Marguerite Verne Geraldine, being acquainted with all that is passing, like the weird sisters in Macbeth, vanishes. English Men of Letters: Coleridge "You think that I am the prince of whom the weird sisters spoke; and you would have me slay the dragon Fafnir, and win for you the hoard of Andvari." The Story of Siegfried Printed by the weird sisters in the year of the big wind. Ulysses She was no bad representative of the weird sisters. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab And why did the weird sisters plan ruin to the murderous Scot? The Titan Weird here = skilled in witchcraft; like the "weird sisters" of Macbeth. The Lady of the Lake Imagine an English illustrator's projection of the weird sisters—with long grey beards duly growing on their chins, and belike one of them duly holding in her hand a pilot's thumb. Yet Again We went forwards the same day to Fores, the town to which Macbeth was travelling, when he met the weird sisters in his way. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have show'd some truth. Macbeth They then turned into air and vanished; by which the generals knew them to be the weird sisters, or witches. Tales from Shakespeare Macbeth had a wife, to whom he communicated the strange prediction of the weird sisters and its partial accomplishment. Tales from Shakespeare With these miserable thoughts they found no peace, and Macbeth determined once more to seek out the weird sisters and know from them the worst. Tales from Shakespeare |
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