| 释义 |
grimpen|ˈgrɪmpən|
[Etym. uncertain.]
? A marshy area.
1902A. Conan Doyle Hound of Baskervilles vii. 153 Life has become like that great Grimpen Mire, with little green patches everywhere into which one may sink and with no guide to point the track. 1940T. S. Eliot East Coker ii. 10 In a dark wood, in a bramble, On the edge of a grimpen, where is no secure foothold. 1968W. S. Baring-Gould Annotated Sherlock Holmes II. xxxvi. 47 As is well known, Watson's ‘Great Grimpen Mire’ is Grimspound Bog, three miles to the north and west of Widecombe-in-the-Moor. |