单词 | crusoe |
释义 | crusoen.1 = crucian n., species of carp. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > carassius auratus (gold-fish) goldfish1752 crucian1763 gold carp1765 crusoe1799 telescope-eye1848 telescope goldfish1880 shubunkin1917 lion-head1928 Oranda1928 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 264 Method of catching Crusoes, or Crucians. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018). Crusoen.2 One who is shipwrecked on a desert island. Also attributive and in other combinations, as Crusoe life, Crusoe-like adj. and adv. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [noun] > state of being left alone or forlorn > person > shipwrecked or marooned person naufrague1681 castaway1799 maroon1883 Crusoe1907 1907 Daily Chron. 3 July 5/5 There he had built himself a habitation, Crusoe-like, out of brushwood. 1908 Daily Chron. 16 July 1/5 Blades of penknives were fashioned into needles, hair-combs were made from bush thorns, and altogether the men led a regular Crusoe life. 1926 Chambers's Jrnl. 104/1 No other island..has accommodated more Crusoes during the last three centuries than Chatham Island. Derivatives ˈCrusoeing n. living like Crusoe. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [noun] > living alone Crusoeing1888 1888 R. L. Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. Feb. 252/1 And then you might go Crusoeing, a word that covers all extempore eating in the open air. 1926 Chambers's Jrnl. 104/1 There is another and fell aspect of Crusoeing, however—an aspect which most fiction-writers carefully ignore. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11799n.21888 |
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