释义 |
gulaggu‧lag /ˈɡuːlæɡ $ -lɑːɡ/ noun [countable] gulagOrigin: 1900-2000 Russian Glavnoe Upravlenie Ispravitel'no-trudovykh Lagerei ‘Chief Directorate of Labor Camps’ - As in all gulags, the prisoners have no voice.
- Finally, you arrive in the paint scraper aisle, a dimly lit gulag in the rear of the store.
- If you have assembled a no-name dinner, you are immediately consigned to the gastronomic gulag.
- It is all a bit unnerving, and feels like some secret gulag.
- Meaning they either threw you in the gulag for 20 years or condemned you to a lifetime of borscht.
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