英语词汇“albatross around one's neck”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. figurative. [In allusion to Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: see quot. 1798 at sense 1a.] A source of frustration, obstruction, or guilt, from which it is difficult to rid oneself; a burden, an encumbrance; a hindrance. Frequently in albatross around one's neck and variants. Cf. millstone n. 2a.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > that which or one who > hard to get rid of

bur1600

old man of the sea1712

Old Man of the Mountain1841

albatross1883

1883 J. E. Collins Life & Times of Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald xii. 197 Sir Allan had long been the albatross about the government's neck.

1936 D. Thomas in First Comment Treasury (1937) 77 The old forget the grief, Hack of the cough, the hanging albatross.

1955 O. Nash in McCall's July 6/2 For when you're cross, Amanda, I feel an albatross Around my neck.

1963 Times 16 Feb. 9/7 The Director of Recruiting, with the albatross of ‘165,000’ removed from about his neck, has already started to attack the problem of balance.

2005 Spectator 22 Oct. 48/3 In age he [sc. Sassoon] found his war reputation something of an albatross and feared that his later poetry was dated and ignored.

单词	albatross around one's neck
释义	> as lemmas albatross around one's neck b. figurative. [In allusion to Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: see quot. 1798 at sense 1a.] A source of frustration, obstruction, or guilt, from which it is difficult to rid oneself; a burden, an encumbrance; a hindrance. Frequently in albatross around one's neck and variants. Cf. millstone n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > that which or one who > hard to get rid of bur1600 old man of the sea1712 Old Man of the Mountain1841 albatross1883 1883 J. E. Collins Life & Times of Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald xii. 197 Sir Allan had long been the albatross about the government's neck. 1936 D. Thomas in First Comment Treasury (1937) 77 The old forget the grief, Hack of the cough, the hanging albatross. 1955 O. Nash in McCall's July 6/2 For when you're cross, Amanda, I feel an albatross Around my neck. 1963 Times 16 Feb. 9/7 The Director of Recruiting, with the albatross of ‘165,000’ removed from about his neck, has already started to attack the problem of balance. 2005 Spectator 22 Oct. 48/3 In age he [sc. Sassoon] found his war reputation something of an albatross and feared that his later poetry was dated and ignored. extracted from albatrossn. < as lemmas
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