单词 | crusoe-like |
释义 | > as lemmasCrusoe-like 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. < as lemmas |
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