| 释义 |
‖ bidon|bidɔ̃|
[Fr.]
A container for liquids: spec. (a) a wooden cup; (b) a bottle or canteen for water, wine, etc.; (c) an oil drum or petrol tin. Hence bidonville [F. ville town], a shanty-town built of oil drums or petrol tins.
1867‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags II. i. 13 ‘Take a draught of my burgundy...’ He..took the bidon. 1922E. E. Cummings Enormous Room iii. 48 Tilting their bidons on high and absorbing the thin streams which spurted therefrom. Ibid., He remarked: ‘Bread without wine doesn't taste good,’ and proffered his bidon. 1933‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xv. 115 She had picked up an empty oil bidon. 1955Times 21 July 6/6 Huge fires destroyed two Moroccan bidonvilles (shanty towns) in the suburbs of Fedala. 1961Times 6 May 9/7 Elsewhere the bidonvilles, or petrol can shanty towns, spread like a rash. 1964E. Ambler Kind of Anger vi. 164 Get the car filled up. Adèle left me two bidons for emergencies. |