| 单词 | river-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriver-boy river-boy n. freq. somewhat depreciative a boy or young man who lives, works, or spends a lot of time on or near a river. ΚΠ 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 117 Or sport in groups with River-Boys, that lave Their silken limbs amid the dashing wave. 1839 J. H. Perkins Report in J. P. Foote Schools of Cincinnati (1855) xiv. 120 Among the street-idlers, of our western cities, are found also many of those ‘river boys’, who if not criminal, are versed in every form and degree of vice. 1894 W. Cather in Nebraska State Jrnl. 12 Aug. 13/4 The only ambition they are ever guilty of is that vague yearning which stirs in the breasts of all river boys, to go down the river into the big world some day... But they never go. 2005 J. Martyn Ringfort to Runway ii. i. 101 It was gone five and the ‘river-boys’, were in, noisily kitting off and scrubbing up midst high spirited banter. < as lemmas |
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