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

Suicide Corner n. now historical (in the First World War 1914–18) a name given to any of various places regarded as particularly dangerous or incurring particularly heavy losses; spec. the name given to a dangerous section of road in the Ypres salient on the Western Front.

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1915 Nottingham Evening Post 17 May 3/3 The terrific, and almost continuous shelling of some cross roads known by the sinister name of ‘Suicide Corner’, in the Ypres neighbourhood.

1917 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 Oct. 13/5 In the streets of Ypres, in innumerable ‘suicide corners’ and ‘machine-gun valleys’, ‘dead men's holes’ and other unhealthy spots, the prince won the complete approval of the men.

1918 A. P. Herbert Bomber Gipsy (1920) 26 Now there are homes in Hamel and tents in the Vale of Hell, And a camp at Suicide Corner, where half a regiment fell.

1997 S. Badsey & P. Taylor in P. Liddle Passchendaele in Perspective (2013) xxiii. 383 The offensive received very little attention, except for occasional items on the difficulties of transport through the mud..and of Australians at ‘Suicide Corner’.

单词	suicide corner
释义	> as lemmas Suicide Corner Suicide Corner n. now historical (in the First World War 1914–18) a name given to any of various places regarded as particularly dangerous or incurring particularly heavy losses; spec. the name given to a dangerous section of road in the Ypres salient on the Western Front. ΚΠ 1915 Nottingham Evening Post 17 May 3/3 The terrific, and almost continuous shelling of some cross roads known by the sinister name of ‘Suicide Corner’, in the Ypres neighbourhood. 1917 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 Oct. 13/5 In the streets of Ypres, in innumerable ‘suicide corners’ and ‘machine-gun valleys’, ‘dead men's holes’ and other unhealthy spots, the prince won the complete approval of the men. 1918 A. P. Herbert Bomber Gipsy (1920) 26 Now there are homes in Hamel and tents in the Vale of Hell, And a camp at Suicide Corner, where half a regiment fell. 1997 S. Badsey & P. Taylor in P. Liddle Passchendaele in Perspective (2013) xxiii. 383 The offensive received very little attention, except for occasional items on the difficulties of transport through the mud..and of Australians at ‘Suicide Corner’. extracted from suiciden.¹ < as lemmas
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