| 单词 | human bean |
| 释义 | > as lemmashuman bean human bean n. colloquial a humorous alteration or mispronunciation of human being.Frequently as part of an extended pun relating to beans (cf. bean n.). ΚΠ 1842 Punch 3 23/1 A good thrashing, which is often applied to vegetable beans with effect, may be resorted to in the case of this ordinary human Bean. 1935 Sci. News Let. 2 Mar. 140/3 The only guarantee of the worth of an individual for the breeding of a superior race is..the superiority of its progeny, and this is just as true of the human ‘bean’ as of the vegetable bean about which the statement was originally made. 1982 R. Dahl BFG 28 We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable. 2015 Fraser Coast (Queensland) Chron. (Nexis) 3 Sept. 8 A teacher asked her students to use the word ‘beans’ in a sentence. ‘My father grows beans,’ said one girl. ‘My mother cooks beans,’ said a boy. A third student spoke up: ‘We are all human beans.’ < as lemmas |
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