| 单词 | grave-trap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrave-trap grave-trap n. Theatre (see quot. 1886); also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > trapdoor trap1800 grave-trap1844 vampire trap1846 scruto1853 slote1853 star trap1873 vampire1881 1844 J. R. Planché Drama at Home i. 8 I'll propose her [sc. Ophelia] to be resident directress, with a bed in the grave trap. 1859 E. Fitzball Thirty-five Years Dram. Author's Life II. 211 On one side, was the grave trap made use of in ‘Hamlet’. 1886 Stage Gossip 69 The grave-trap is the one in centre of the stage, or nearly so, and is so called on account of its use in the grave scene in ‘Hamlet’. 1919 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism I. ii. viii. 251 He was then firmly convinced that England..was tottering to the brink of the grave-trap in which exhausted nations disappear from the scene of history. < as lemmas |
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