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

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roaring camp

roaring camp n. North American (now historical) (the name of) a gold-prospecting camp characterized by wild behaviour, unrestrained drinking and gambling, etc.

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1868 B. Harte in Overland Monthly Aug. 186/2 Gamblers and adventurers are generally superstitious, and Oakhurst one day declared that the baby had brought ‘the luck’ to Roaring Camp.

1892 Daily News 15 Feb. 6/2 I have seen many roaring camps; they are hot places, when men lose their money at the gambling-tables and when the bullets begin to fly about.

1997 J. Hildebrand Reading the River viii. 84 While other roaring camps withered after the gold rush, Eagle prospered into respectability.

extracted from roaringadj.adv.

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单词	roaring camp
释义	> as lemmas roaring camp roaring camp n. North American (now historical) (the name of) a gold-prospecting camp characterized by wild behaviour, unrestrained drinking and gambling, etc. ΚΠ 1868 B. Harte in Overland Monthly Aug. 186/2 Gamblers and adventurers are generally superstitious, and Oakhurst one day declared that the baby had brought ‘the luck’ to Roaring Camp. 1892 Daily News 15 Feb. 6/2 I have seen many roaring camps; they are hot places, when men lose their money at the gambling-tables and when the bullets begin to fly about. 1997 J. Hildebrand Reading the River viii. 84 While other roaring camps withered after the gold rush, Eagle prospered into respectability. extracted from roaringadj.adv. < as lemmas
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