| 单词 | aspidistral |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaspiˈdistral aspiˈdistral adj. of or pertaining to an aspidistra; abounding in aspidistras. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [adjective] aspidistral1936 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > middle-class or bourgeois > symbol of aspidistral1936 1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying iii. 73 He was a made man—or, by Smilesian, aspidistral standards, un~made. 1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying viii. 198 Why chew leathery beef in the aspidistral dining-room when he had ten quid in pocket? 1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying x. 270 Flaxman's wife had forgiven him, and he was back at Peckham, in aspidistral bliss. 1939 R. Campbell Flowering Rifle i. 13 The weed of Life that grows where air is hot With ‘Meetings’ for its aspidistral pot. < as lemmas |
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