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单词 a skeleton at the feast
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a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)
c. a skeleton at the feast (or banquet), a reminder of serious or saddening things in the midst of enjoyment; a source of gloom or depression.An allusion to the practice of the ancient Egyptians, as recorded by Plutarch in his Moralia.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances
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1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iii. 18 The skeleton of ennui sat at these dreary feasts; and it was not even crowned with roses.
1893 H. Vizetelly Glances Back I. iv. 86 He was..the general skeleton at all banquets.
1896 M. W. Hungerford Lonely Girl xiv To give him leisure to act the skeleton at the feast.
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