| 单词 | body bag |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbody bag body bag n. †(a) a sleeping bag (obsolete); (b) (originally U.S.) a strong bag in which a corpse is carried, esp. from a battlefield or the scene of an accident or crime. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > sleeping bag fleabag1811 body bag1885 bedroll1910 fart sack1943 bivouac sack1961 bivvy bag1982 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > removal of corpse > [noun] > bag (from scene of accident, etc.) body bag1954 1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 820/1 Retire to an ice-house, with..a fur over-coat and body-bag. 1947 Life 7 Apr. 51/1 Homer Collyer, in police body bag, is lowered from the second story of his house. 1954 Amer. Speech 29 273 Body-bag, a canvas bag for removing bodies of persons killed in fires. 1967 N.Y. Times 11 Oct. 35/3 The bodies were found beneath the approximate center of the dam... They were placed in ‘body bags’ and taken to Jackson, the state capital, for an autopsy. 1984 J. Didion Democracy iv. iii. 224 Before he zipped the body bag closed the Tamil doctor went through the pockets of Jack Lovett's seersucker jacket. 2001 Nation (N.Y.) 23 Apr. 31/1 Hundreds of soldiers on both sides came back in body bags. < as lemmas |
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