英语词汇“last meal”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

last meal n. a meal customarily offered in certain countries to a prisoner who is sentenced to death on the day or day before he or she is about to be executed; also in extended (frequently humorous) use. Cf. last request n.In some jurisdictions, esp. in the United States, it is customary that the prisoner may request any type of food within reason.

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1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 411 Pudens, the keeper of the prison..did them all the good offices in his power. The day before they suffered they gave them, according to custom, their last meal, which was called a free supper, and they eat in public.

1842 Shrewsbury News in Phrenol. Jrnl. 16 70 He ate with unusual keenness of appetite, a most substantial breakfast, and asked Gough, the turnkey,..if he ever saw a man enjoy his last meal so heartily.

1874 Sunday Mag. 834/2 I should think it a terrible sight within the prison walls to see a felon take his last meal before he goes to the gallows.

1904 F. B. Mott Before Crisis xix. 227 It's [sc. a dance] the condemned's choice of his last meal.

1918 Reedy's Mirror 12 Apr. 220/2 The cook had his say about a man who was to die in an hour ‘bein' so damn pertickler between lamb chops and pork chops for his last meal’.

2005 A. Chambers This is All (2007) 587 An ideal place for a picnic, where the condemned woman can eat her last meal.

单词	last meal
释义	> as lemmas last meal last meal n. a meal customarily offered in certain countries to a prisoner who is sentenced to death on the day or day before he or she is about to be executed; also in extended (frequently humorous) use. Cf. last request n.In some jurisdictions, esp. in the United States, it is customary that the prisoner may request any type of food within reason. ΚΠ 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 411 Pudens, the keeper of the prison..did them all the good offices in his power. The day before they suffered they gave them, according to custom, their last meal, which was called a free supper, and they eat in public. 1842 Shrewsbury News in Phrenol. Jrnl. 16 70 He ate with unusual keenness of appetite, a most substantial breakfast, and asked Gough, the turnkey,..if he ever saw a man enjoy his last meal so heartily. 1874 Sunday Mag. 834/2 I should think it a terrible sight within the prison walls to see a felon take his last meal before he goes to the gallows. 1904 F. B. Mott Before Crisis xix. 227 It's [sc. a dance] the condemned's choice of his last meal. 1918 Reedy's Mirror 12 Apr. 220/2 The cook had his say about a man who was to die in an hour ‘bein' so damn pertickler between lamb chops and pork chops for his last meal’. 2005 A. Chambers This is All (2007) 587 An ideal place for a picnic, where the condemned woman can eat her last meal. extracted from lastadv.adj.n.⁴ < as lemmas
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