| 单词 | ancient mariner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasancient mariner ancient mariner n. (also with capital initials) a person likened to the ancient mariner in Coleridge's poem (see note), esp. in being an insistent storyteller; frequently as a modifier.With allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), in which the mariner detains a man going to a wedding and tells him a haunting story about a sea voyage in which, following the mariner's unexplained act of killing an albatross, all the other crew members die; the mariner survives but is compelled to roam the earth recounting his story. Cf. albatross n. 1b. ΚΠ 1867 M. E. Braddon Birds of Prey iv. i, in Belgravia Mar. 21 I thought of the luckless wedding guest in Coleridge's grim ballad as I sat listening to this modern-ancient mariner... For three mortal hours did I listen to my ancient mariner. 1930 Washington Post 6 Jan. 3/2 He had an Ancient-Mariner gleam in his bright and piercing eye and a forefinger crooked and calloused from prolonged buttonholing of unwilling victims. 1954 M. Tonge Sense of Living 31 In adulthood we too are ancient mariners who have begun to slough off the albatross that weighed us down. 2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 68 I was held captive by Professor Cousins' ancient mariner anecdotage as he embarked on a rambling story. < as lemmas |
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