英语词汇“baron munchausen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. More fully Baron Munchausen. An inventor of extravagantly untruthful pseudo-autobiographical stories of amazing adventure and prowess. Frequently attributive, esp. in Munchausen story, Munchausen tale, etc.

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1823 in Harper's Mag. (1875) Mar. 568 What a Munchausen tale!—a tale told by a wise man, signifying nothing.

1834 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 95 Such veritable historians as the Gullivers and Munchausens, have gravely asserted that whales have been mistaken for islands.

1843 E. S. Wortley Moonshine ii. i. 41 She is excellent fun, with her travelled airs and graces, and extravagant stories of all sorts of impossible adventures—an absolute female Munchausen.

1850 Sci. Amer. 26 Jan. 150 This looks like a Munchausen story. If they discovered the passage, why did they not go through it.

1882 Harper's Mag. Nov. 897/2 If half of what he says is true, we may fairly call him the American Roland or Cid, albeit many critics, more shrewd than genial, have felt more like characterizing him as an American Munchausen.

1952 A. Huxley Let. 20 May (1969) 644 There is something simpatico about Pascal—he is a kind of Central European Baron Munchausen.

1986 Financial Times 5 Feb. i. 19 The swaggering fantasies of Horace, the disastrous part-time machinist, a black Munchausen who sees himself..as ‘film’ director and actor.

单词	baron munchausen
释义	> as lemmas Baron Munchausen a. More fully Baron Munchausen. An inventor of extravagantly untruthful pseudo-autobiographical stories of amazing adventure and prowess. Frequently attributive, esp. in Munchausen story, Munchausen tale, etc. ΚΠ 1823 in Harper's Mag. (1875) Mar. 568 What a Munchausen tale!—a tale told by a wise man, signifying nothing. 1834 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 95 Such veritable historians as the Gullivers and Munchausens, have gravely asserted that whales have been mistaken for islands. 1843 E. S. Wortley Moonshine ii. i. 41 She is excellent fun, with her travelled airs and graces, and extravagant stories of all sorts of impossible adventures—an absolute female Munchausen. 1850 Sci. Amer. 26 Jan. 150 This looks like a Munchausen story. If they discovered the passage, why did they not go through it. 1882 Harper's Mag. Nov. 897/2 If half of what he says is true, we may fairly call him the American Roland or Cid, albeit many critics, more shrewd than genial, have felt more like characterizing him as an American Munchausen. 1952 A. Huxley Let. 20 May (1969) 644 There is something simpatico about Pascal—he is a kind of Central European Baron Munchausen. 1986 Financial Times 5 Feb. i. 19 The swaggering fantasies of Horace, the disastrous part-time machinist, a black Munchausen who sees himself..as ‘film’ director and actor. extracted from Munchausenn. < as lemmas
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