| 释义 |
Nissen|ˈnɪsən|
[Name of the inventor, Lt.-Col. Peter Norman Nissen (1871–1930).]
Used attrib. and absol. of a tunnel-shaped hut made of corrugated iron with a cement floor.
1917E. F. Wood Note-Book of Intelligence Officer 224 Recently I met the inventor of the now famous Nissen hut. 1932Auden Orators iii. 114 These nissen huts if hiding could Your eye inseeing from Firm fenders were. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 16 May 3 In Nissen huts, with orders coming through from Flight Commander all day and night. 1948G. Greene Heart of Matter iii. i. 191, I would never go back there, to the Nissen hut, if it meant that she were happy. Ibid. 192 The rain hammered on the Nissen roofs. Ibid. 222 He's living in one of the Nissens now. 1954W. Faulkner Fable (1955) 86 It was not the Nissen walls which trembled. 1973J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 72 There's a glorified Nissen hut—a bit of youth club—on the site. |