| 单词 | bulls of brass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbulls of brass b. bulls of brass, brazen bulls, as those that guarded the golden fleece, and Phalaris' bull (proverbial as an engine of torture). ΚΠ c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1428 Two bolys makid all of bras. 1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster iii. 33 The points of swords, tortures, nor buls of brasse, Should wrack it from me. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. i. i. 6 All maner of tortures, brasen bulls, racks, wheeles. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Shop-keepers of Ireland (new ed.) 16 To torment People by putting them into a Bull of Brass with Fire under it. < as lemmas |
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