on high

介词短语
中文释义
英 /ɒn ˈhaɪ/    美 /ɑn ˈhaɪ/

英文释义

介词短语
  1. To a high position; or up in, or to, the sky; above.
    — So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky, / They cannot see the Sun on high; / The wind hath blown a gale all day, / At evening it hath died away.
  2. Up in, or to, Heaven. literary,specifically
    — Who is like vnto the Lord our God: who dwelleth on high: […]
  3. In authority, influence, or power. humorous
    — According to those on high, taxes need to increase again.

词源

From Middle English on heigh, on an heigh (“in or into heaven; up to heaven”) [and other forms], from Old English on hēagum (“on high”); hēagum is an inflected form of hēah (“high; tall”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“height; to elevate”). The English word is equivalent to on + high. Compare Dutch omhoog (“upwards, on high”), West Frisian omheech (“upwards”).
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