请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 dark house
释义

> as lemmas

dark house
dark house n. Obsolete a place of confinement; (sometimes) spec. one for people considered insane; a prison.Cf. darkroom n. 1 and to keep (a person) dark at sense 1c.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > place of confinement > for madman
dark housec1225
darkrooma1616
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Royal) l. 218 Dreihen hire into darc [c1225 Bodl. dorc] hus.
?1569 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiopian Hist. viii. f. 109 He..was offended with Theagenes, by and by laid him in Irons, and tormented him with Honger and Stripes, beinge inclosed in a darke house.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 387 Loue is meerely a madnesse, and..deserues as wel a darke house, and a whip, as madmen do. View more context for this quotation
extracted from darkadj.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 2:48:57