| 单词 | fleet street |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFleet Street Fleet Street n. a street in London devoted largely to the production and publication of daily newspapers and periodical journals; hence allusively, the national newspapers generally, the journalistic press, journalism. So Fleet Streeter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > newspaper offices > [noun] > locations of Printing House Square1832 Fleet Street1882 street1932 society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > world of newspaperdom1848 Fleet Street1882 newspaperland1910 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism ii. 19 Fleet Street to-day, with its energy, enterprise, and intelligence, is a characteristic representation of the whole spirit of the English Press. 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 19/2 Fleet-Street, the estate of journalism. 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 19/2 Fleet-Streeter, a journalist of the baser sort. 1904 J. R. Robinson 50 Years Fleet St. 236 The passion for letter-writing to newspapers is recognised in Fleet Street as a distinct form of mental aberration. 1905 H. Leach Fleet St. 87 A faculty for quick and perfect condensation is one of the most valuable possessions of the Fleet Street man. 1905 H. Leach Fleet St. 143 Fleet Street has its particular specialists for several of the courts of law. 1905 H. Leach Fleet St. 189 Their [sc. editors'] differences show how impossible it is for Fleet Street to tell what the morrow will bring forth for it. 1920 K. Jones Fleet St. & Downing St. 330 Thus would Fleet Street and Downing Street at last understand one another. 1927 Scots Observer 12 Mar. 11/3 Shabbiness and flyblownness represent a Fleet Street tradition that has been broken. 1962 John o' London's 22 Feb. 177/3 The event is a natural for the copy-starved Fleet Streeters. 1969 Times 10 Dec. 11/4 The underminers in Fleet Street: voilà l'ennemi. < as lemmas |
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