| 释义 |
ˈpersonless, a.
[f. person n. + -less.]
a. Unrecognized as a person; denied individuality.
b. Making no distinction of persons.
1909E. Hill in Hill & Shafer Gt. Suffragists 11 The slaves of ancient empires, like women of to-day, were not recognised as ‘persons’, but they built the hanging gardens of Babylon and her mammoth buildings, and the material glory of Athens, just as the ‘personless persons’ of to-day weave the great moral fabric of the universe and, departing, bequeath their ideals to the willing souls ready to receive them. 1932H. S. Walpole Fortress iv. ii. 607 He was by temperament intensely cautious and by training suspicious, and, mingled with these two strains, there was an odd element of personless, rather noble philanthropy. |