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单词 walking death's head
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walking death's head
a. Referring to a person hardly distinguishable from a corpse except by the power of movement, as walking corpse, walking dead, walking death's head, walking sepulchre, etc.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun] > those appearing dead
walking dead1980
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > one who
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1608 G. Chapman Trag. Duke of Byron v, in Conspiracie Duke of Byron sig. Q4v A walking sepulcher, or household thiefe.
1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. xii. 401 Wherever these walking Corpes, (these Carkases) were to be seen.
1766 S. R. Scott Hist. Sir George Ellison II. iii. ix. 99 No young person spoke to me; the men saw no attractions in a walking corpse; and the young women were obliged, in regard to their reputations, to avoid me.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 54 Looking like a moving and walking corpse, while yet an inhabitant of this world.
1855 W. B. Wood Personal Recoll. Stage xviii. 362 This walking skeleton was inclosed in a close-fitting, elastic black silk suit, rendering his figure perfectly and painfully distinct.
1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons iii. iii. 247 You look terrible. Like the walking dead.
1998 S. Gilmartin Ancestry & Narr. 19th C. Brit. Lit. vii. 237 Hardy's imaginative fascination with the grave did not always require a woman to be old to imagine her a walking death's-head.
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