| 单词 | death knell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath knell death knell n. the tolling of a bell to mark a person's death; (often figurative) a marker of the (imminent) end of a situation, system, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > bell > knell, peal, or stroke knellc961 soul-knell?a1300 soul-knoll?c1500 death knell1773 dumb peal1799 teller1868 1773 P. Brydone Tour Sicily xxiii. 74 Every stroke of the flint sounded in Pasqual's ears like his death-knell. 1795 Poetic Epist. to Prince 8 Let the vile Phalanx that close hems Thee round, With pallid cheeks hear the unwelcome sound. The direful death-knell of their lawless Hope. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xviii. 246 I must not Moray's death-knell hear! 1869 Spectator 11 Sept. 1058/1 The united cry of North and South will sound the death-knell of tenant injustice and of agrarian crime in Ireland. 1937 Vermont: Guide to Green Mountain State (Federal Writers' Project) ii. 84 The death knell was three strokes for a man, two for a woman, followed by strokes to the number of the dead person's years. 2002 C. Slaughter Before Knife (2003) i. 19 For England and her Empire, it was the death knell, the beginning of the end. < as lemmas |
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