| 释义 |
bone-yard, boneyard orig. U.S.
[bone n.]
a. A yard or place where the bones of dead animals are collected for subsequent use;
b. (see quot. 1903);
c. a cemetery (slang).
1854J. R. Planché Once upon Time i. i in Extravag. (1879) 331 Or in a bone-yard with some knacker dwell. 1866‘Mark Twain’ Lett. fr. Hawaii (1967) 277 It's one of them infernal old ancient graveyards... Yes, likely. I suppose you didn't know that bone yard was there. 1902W. J. Long Beasts of Field 70, I have met men..who speak of ‘bone yards’ which they have discovered... They say that the caribou go there to die. 1903N.Y. Even. Post 7 Oct. 7 A dilapidated horse saved from the bone-yard. 1945R. Finlayson in F. Sargeson Speaking for Ourselves 17 He wouldn't have gone home late at night past the old bone-yard. |