英语词汇“to wash one's spears”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

e. to wash one's spears (sc. in blood): a phrase attributed to South African chiefs as expressing their motive for going to war.

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society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war

to take the plainc1380

to go to war or warsc1450

to take the field1482

to go (etc.) on warfare1483

to pass (forth) in warfare1483

field1535

to go out1548

to go to the war(s)1600

to be (also go) on the warpath1841

to wash one's spears1892

1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily v With every moon a fresh impi started to wash its spears, and came back few and thin.

1903 J. Bryce Stud. in Contemp. Biogr. 221 In one thing the young men [Sir Stafford Northcote's followers], who, like Zulu warriors, wished to wash their spears, were right and he was wrong.

单词	to wash one's spears
释义	> as lemmas to wash one's spears e. to wash one's spears (sc. in blood): a phrase attributed to South African chiefs as expressing their motive for going to war. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war to take the plainc1380 to go to war or warsc1450 to take the field1482 to go (etc.) on warfare1483 to pass (forth) in warfare1483 field1535 to go out1548 to go to the war(s)1600 to be (also go) on the warpath1841 to wash one's spears1892 1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily v With every moon a fresh impi started to wash its spears, and came back few and thin. 1903 J. Bryce Stud. in Contemp. Biogr. 221 In one thing the young men [Sir Stafford Northcote's followers], who, like Zulu warriors, wished to wash their spears, were right and he was wrong. extracted from washv. < as lemmas
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