| 单词 | potter's field |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotter's field potter's field n. (with reference to Matthew xxvii. 7: see quot. 1526) a piece of ground used as a burial place for the poor and for strangers (also figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] > for poor or strangers potter's field1597 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvii. f. xl They toke counsell, and bought with them a potters felde to bury strangers in.] 1597 Bp. J. King Serm. Funeralles Arch-bishoppe Yorke, 1594 in Lect. Ionas 676 Forget not to buy a field..to bury thy dead in; a potters field, such as they had at Ierusalem, boughte with the price of bloude. 1688 Friendly Deb. Next Elections Parl. No. 3 Probably..like Judas Thirty Pence, they might not think it worth the Royal Treasury, and therefore might lay it out in a Potters Field, or a Daughters Portion, or so. 1764 W. Smith Answer Mr. Franklin's Remarks 9 One of them has long ago been applied by the city itself to the public use, as a Potter's field, and negroe burying-ground. 1870 Nature Aug. 281/2 For seven years the land had remained waste, a sort of Potter's field, and a scandal to that part of the metropolis. 1906 ‘M. Twain’ in Westm. Gaz. 26 Nov. 4/2 When I wrote a letter..you did not put it in the respectable part of the magazine, but interred it in that ‘potter's field’, the Editor's Drawer. 2010 N.Y. Times 30 June a25/2 He had died in late May and might have been buried at the potter's field on Hart Island. < as lemmas |
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