| 单词 | death-cart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath-cart death-cart n. a cart for conveying a corpse or corpses, spec. during an epidemic of plague. ΚΠ 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. lxiv. 218 My lord here, that is travelling home in our death-cart, has a coffin as thick as a stone-wall. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali II. iii. ii. 60 The death-carts..went through the streets..picking up the dead bodies. 1948 S. Gilbert tr. A. Camus Plague iii. i. 164 This system..was really a great improvement on the death-carts driven by negroes. 1994 R. Davies Cunning Man 262 I drove an ambulance, you remember. More like a death-cart sometimes. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。