| 释义 |
‖ spurlos versenkt, adj. phr.|ˈʃpuːrloːs fərˈzɛŋkt|
[Ger., = sunk without trace.]
Sunk without trace; usu. fig., done for, lost from sight. Hence occas. (with partial translation) sunk spurlos. Cf. to sink without trace s.v. sink v. 1 a.
The phrase became widely known as a result of the publication in September 1917 of a secret telegram sent in May of that year by Count Luxburg, the German minister in Buenos Aires, to Berlin, advising that Argentine shipping should be either turned back or sunk without trace.
1918W. H. Allen in Stories of Americans in World War 24 He was merely seeking an excuse for the inhuman conduct he planned. The order ‘spurlos versenkt’—to be sunk without leaving a trace—was to be obeyed. 1922A. Huxley Mortal Coils 92 You're done for..sunk—spurlos. 1928H. Crane Let. 23 Oct. (1965) 329, I haven't had a creative thought for so long that I feel quite lost and spurlos versenkt. 1930W. F. Sands Undiplomatic Mem. xv. 225 My plan for neutralization of Korea..was sunk without trace, completely spurlos. 1946W. S. Churchill in Compl. Speeches (1974) VII. 7337 He has departed ‘spurlos versengkt’ [sic] as the German expression says—sunk without leaving a trace behind. 1963Oxf. Med. School Gaz. XV. 23 Many distinguished research workers have ceased production when they have become professors and like submarines in dangerous waters have been spurlos versenkt. |