| 单词 | russian roulette |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRussian roulette Russian roulette n. an act of bravado in which a person loads (usually) one chamber of a revolver, spins the cylinder, holds the barrel to his head, and pulls the trigger; in later use chiefly figurative, a dangerously unpredictable situation or enterprise. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness > a matter of mere chance lottery1585 haphazard1594 lucky bag1788 Russian roulette1937 1937 G. Surdez in Collier's 30 Jan. 16 ‘Did you ever hear of Russian Roulette?’.. With the Russian army in Rumania, around 1917,..some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver,..remove a cartridge from the cylinder, spin the cylinder, snap it back in place, put it to his head and pull the trigger. 1976 Lancet 9 Oct. 776/2 Abusive parents are often the scarred survivors of generations of reproductive russian roulette. 2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 3 July 4/1 Sick Australians are playing Russian roulette with their health by travelling overseas for cut-price surgery. < as lemmas |
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