| 单词 | white man's grave |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite man's grave white man's grave n. now historical (with the) a name given to Sierra Leone, or to equatorial West Africa in general, owing to the high mortality rate among white colonizers of the region. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Africa > [noun] > West Africa Slave Coast1778 white man's grave1836 The Land of the Shadow of Death1897 1817 W. W. Shreeve Sierra Leone 2 It must ever prove the ‘white man's grave’, of which we have many lamentable proofs in the deaths of so many worthy and adventurous spirits..all fallen through ferocity, treachery, or climate.] 1836 F. H. Rankin White Man's Grave I. p. viii [Sierra Leone] bears the terrific and poetic title of the ‘White Man's Grave’. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 2 My friends..said, ‘Oh, you can't possibly go there; that's where Sierra Leone is, the white man's grave, you know.’ 1924 F. Maurice & G. Arthur Life Ld. Wolseley iv. 65 The Gold Coast had well earned the name of ‘The White Man's Grave’. 1952 P. Atkey Juniper Rock xiv. 127 I was a bride at eighteen... I went out to the white man's grave. 1998 D. MacIntosh (title) Travels in the White Man's Grave. < as lemmas |
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