英语词汇“Botany Bay”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	Botany Bay
释义	Botany Bay [So called by Captain Cook on account of the great variety of plants collected there by the botanist who accompanied him.] Proper name of a place in New South Wales, formerly a convict settlement; hence proverbially used in sense of ‘transportation’; also fig. 1812Examiner 19 Oct. 666/1 The famished wretch..is sent to the whipping-post or to Botany Bay.1821Byron Juan iii. xciv, Such names at present cut a convict figure, The very Botany Bay in moral geography.1841Marryat Poacher vi, They are..sent off to Botany Bay.
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