| 单词 | bothy system |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbothy system C1. attributive with the sense ‘of or relating to a building used to provide accommodation for workers’ (see sense 2a), as bothy life, bothy man, bothy system, etc. ΚΠ 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 567/1 A large and still untainted proportion of villagers, bothymen, and cottars, who have not the sense to be genteel. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 383 It is certainly preferable to the bothy system. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters ix. 192 The influences of..the barrack, or rather bothy life. 1861 J. Robb Cottage, Bothy & Kitchen 46 Rats..had..forced the plaster off parts of the bothy ceiling. 1902 Gardening World 18 Oct. 106/3 I was a bothy dweller in a quiet rural district. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song ii. 93 He was sitting outside the bothy door. 1980 A. Blair Rowan on Ridge 94 The two bothymen began to understand this quiet young man. 2014 M. Archibald Bloody Scotl. 7 The bothy system throughout the Lowlands saw young men crammed together in often vastly unsuitable habitations. < as lemmas |
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