| 单词 | never-never country |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNever-Never Country Never-Never Country n. Australian = sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > specific never-never1833 Never-Never Country1859 never-never land1875 marismas1884 Neverland1892 garigue1896 bled1930 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Australasia > [noun] > Australia > interior Never-Never Country1859 outside1869 Centralia1887 centre1896 way back1901 outback1904 Dead Heart1906 Red Centre1935 1859 Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane) 2 Mar. He holds an unstocked run in (let us say) the ‘Never Never’ country. 1877 ‘Capricornus’ Land Law of Future 47 The outside districts have next to be dealt with—the dry, waste, ‘never-never country’. 1907 H. Lawson Romance of Swag (1924) 82 He was a sort of Bush missionary Out Back in Australia, and before he died he was known from the Riverina to away up through the Never-Never Country in Western Australia. 1974 B. Roland No Ordinary Man 169 The Never Never country, the remote Australian outback. 2000 Australian (Nexis) 24 Feb. 3 With the shade of a giant raintree providing only faltering relief from the midday heat of the Never Never country, Jessie, Splinter and Old Man Daylight yesterday stepped forward to accept freehold title of the Northern Territory's fabled Elsey Station. < as lemmas |
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