| 单词 | walking sepulchre |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswalking sepulchre a. Referring to a person hardly distinguishable from a corpse except by the power of movement, as walking corpse, walking dead, walking death's head, walking sepulchre, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun] > those appearing dead walking dead1980 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > one who phlegmatic?1541 drumble1568 log1579 phlegmatist1599 lethargy1634 mooner1842 slowie1901 Oblomov1903 walking dead1980 1608 G. Chapman Trag. Duke of Byron v, in Conspiracie Duke of Byron sig. Q4v A walking sepulcher, or household thiefe. 1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. xii. 401 Wherever these walking Corpes, (these Carkases) were to be seen. 1766 S. R. Scott Hist. Sir George Ellison II. iii. ix. 99 No young person spoke to me; the men saw no attractions in a walking corpse; and the young women were obliged, in regard to their reputations, to avoid me. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 54 Looking like a moving and walking corpse, while yet an inhabitant of this world. 1855 W. B. Wood Personal Recoll. Stage xviii. 362 This walking skeleton was inclosed in a close-fitting, elastic black silk suit, rendering his figure perfectly and painfully distinct. 1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons iii. iii. 247 You look terrible. Like the walking dead. 1998 S. Gilmartin Ancestry & Narr. 19th C. Brit. Lit. vii. 237 Hardy's imaginative fascination with the grave did not always require a woman to be old to imagine her a walking death's-head. < as lemmas |
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