| 单词 | village hampden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvillage Hampden village Hampden n. a person like John Hampden (1594–1643), one without means or influence who opposes a powerful local person or organization (in imitation of quot. 1751). ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [noun] > one who rebels > as individual against local power village Hampden1751 1751 T. Gray Elegy xv. 8 Some Village-Hampden that with dauntless Breast The little Tyrant of his Fields withstood. 1857 C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace I. i. 3 He stalked along like a village Hampden, muttering, ‘The old tyrant shall see whether I'm to be trampled on!’ 1957 D. Piper Eng. Face iv. 111 Many of Johnson's portraits have now lost their names..yet some of them no doubt were ‘village Hampdens’. 1978 A. Sanders Victorian Historical Novel i. 23 Reade is not mourning the silence of village Hampdens, for..he is aspiring to a history which is ‘familiar rather than heroic’. < as lemmas |
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