| 单词 | bed-sitter-land |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbed-sitter-land bed-sitter-land n. an area of a town, etc., in which such rooms are commonly found for rent; the world of rented accommodation in bed-sitting-rooms. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > other areas friars1479 foreign1514 acropolis1570 sestiere1599 shopping district1837 downstreet1865 Latin Quarter1869 midtown1882 club-land1885 flat-land1889 brick area1895 turf1953 grey area1959 office park1963 bed-sitter-land1968 edge city1968 1968 D. E. Allen Brit. Tastes ii. 48 The eight boroughs in the inner western districts [of London] that constitute ‘bed-sitterland’. 1970 Guardian 3 June 7/3 The upshot..of the shifting vote, especially the shifting young votes in bedsitter-land. 1980 M. A. Doody in L. Michaels & C. B. Ricks State of Lang. 121 The addition of the last phrase is irresistibly comic, reminiscent of bed-sitter-land. 1986 Options Apr. 178/3 Serious boys..whose modern elegiac sound seems to..echo the bedsitter land once evoked by Cat Stevens. < as lemmas |
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