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单词 general january
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General January (also Janvier)
d. General February (also Fevrier), General January (also Janvier), General Winter: the winter months personified, as detrimental or destructive to military campaigns, etc.
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1855 Punch 10 Mar. 95 Russia has two generals in whom she can confide—Generals Janvier and Fevrier.
1860 J. Parton Life A. Jackson II. xix. 239 Generals January and February, as the late Emperor Nicholas remarked, will suffice for them.
1908 R. Kipling Lett. to Family (1920) 159 Here, General January will stiffen him up.
1919 Mr. Punch's Hist. Great War 20General Janvier’ is doing his worst, but our men are sticking it out through slush and slime.
1926 B. Pares Hist. Russia xviii. 339 Nicholas had placed his hopes in ‘General January’ and ‘General February’, that is to say in the severity of a Russian winter.
1966 A. Firth Tall, Balding, Thirty-five v. 63 When the crunch came in 1941 he [sc. Stalin] owed a good deal to General Winter.
1967 D. G. Chandler Campaigns Napoleon xiv. lxxi. 815 Time was playing into the hands of the Russians by bringing ‘General Winter’ even closer.
1999 FT Energy Newsletters (Nexis) 1 Jan. 11 Generals Janvier and Fevrier,..hold the capital of Russia's Far East in their icy grasp.
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