| 单词 | boy-farm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboy-farm boy-farm n. now rare a school considered as a place to send unwanted boys (cf. farm n.2 6). ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > boys' school boy-farm1871 1871 Amer. Bibliopolist June (Monthly Gaz. of Lit.) 2/1 Mr. Pullen considers all schools..to be mere starvation-traps and boy-farms, where the scholars ‘are at the mercy of a brute who hates them’. 1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere v. 30 I had best say nothing about the boy-farms which I had been used to call schools. 1958 K. J. Fielding C. Dickens iii. 38 He soon hit on the idea of writing about the Yorkshire schools, boyfarms where unwanted children were disposed of. < as lemmas |
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