| 释义 |
bandar|ˈbʌndə(r)|
Also bander, bunder.
[Hind.]
The Rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta. Also in Bandar-log [Hind. log people], Kipling's nation of monkeys (see quot. 1894); hence fig., any body of irresponsible chatterers.
1885Kipling Departm. Ditties (1899) 54 It was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine. 1894― 2nd Jungle Bk. (1895) 63 Men are blood-brothers of the Bandar-log. 1917‘Ian Hay’ Carrying On xiii. 313 That is just what the Bandar Log overlook, when they jabber about the dreadful industrial upheaval that is coming with peace. 1922Chambers's Jrnl. June 353/1 He was too used to the wordy clatter of the bunderlogue to notice it. Ibid., Their attentions the unhappy bunder would gladly dispense with. 1961Times 23 Nov. 17/3 He castigates the banderlog at all levels. |