| 释义 |
boneless, a.|ˈbəʊnlɪs|
[OE. bánléas, f. ban, bone + léas, -less.]
Without bones; destitute of bone.
c1000Riddles xlvi. 3 (Gr.) Þæt banlease bryd. a1225St. Marher. 18 Blodles ant banles, dumbe ant deaue. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. vii. 5, I would..Haue pluckt my Nipple from his Bonelesse Gummes. 1618Chapman Hesiod ii. 25 The bonelesse fish [octopus] doth eat his feet for colde. 1854Badham Halieut. 439 The boneless eel of Archestratus was no doubt the lamprey.
b. fig. Wanting ‘backbone’; without ‘stamina’; ‘invertebrate’.
1882A. Beresford-Hope Brandreths III. l. 280 The Lord Chancellor read a Queen's Speech jubilant with more boneless promises of gigantic reform. 1884Contemp. Rev. May 630 Those boneless beings who repeat idiotically all they hear. |