| 释义 |
guestless, a.|ˈgɛstlɪs|
[f. guest n. + -less.]
Having no guests. Sometimes as a translation of Gr. ἄξενος, inhospitable.
1598J. Dickenson Greene in Conc. (1878) 138 More deafe..then are the wrack-rich Libique rocks, or the guestlesse ship-swalowing Sirtes, to the cries of dying marriners. 1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 266 The Black Sea has deservedly been named ‘the guestless’, the inhospitable. 1883J. Payn Thicker than Water II. xix. 20 The long table stretched before the guestless chairman like a coffin. |