| 单词 | bloody but unbowed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbloody (also bloodied) but unbowed bloody (also bloodied) but unbowed and variants: resolute despite having suffered adversity, injury, or misfortune.With allusion to W. E. Henley's poem Invictus (see quot. 1888). ΚΠ 1888 W. E. Henley Bk. Verses 56 Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.] 1905 F. Young Sands of Pleasure i. iii. 66 I read my Henley..all the same, that ‘bloody but unbowed’ attitude is impossible and can't be allowed. 1914 M. Lynn Stepdaughter of Prairie 245 With the air of one who was bloodied but spiritually unbowed, she stirred the cake again. 1953 J. W. Wheeler-Bennett Nemesis of Power (1954) iii. v. 511 The campaign in the East should not be undertaken while Britain remained ‘bloody but unbowed’ in the West. 1998 G. D. Phillips Exiles in Hollywood ii. 57 Each of us must valiantly struggle against Fate in an indifferent universe in order to emerge from the contest bloodied but unbowed. 2011 Observer (Nexis) 8 May 1 We are bloody but unbowed. We have been here before, and we have always confounded the profits of doom. < as lemmas |
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