| 释义 |
ˈtownling
[f. town n. + -ling1.]
1. A small town; a townlet.
1887M. B. Betham-Edwards in Temple Bar Mag. Apr. 557 So dead-alive this townling of two or three thousand souls. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound vi. 165 The rugged, bare mountains that look down on the Gulf of Salerno, and whereon nestle the townlings of Salerno and Amalfi.
2. A town-bred person. Also attrib.
1888Doughty Arabia Deserta I. 128 Turns and terms of the herdsmen poets of the desert, which are dark or unknown in any form to the townling Syrians. Ibid. 214 He watched to see if the townling were discouraged, in viewing only their empty desert before him. |