| 单词 | rip van winkle |
| 释义 | Rip Van Winkle in British English (ˈrɪp væn ˈwɪŋkəl) noun informal 1. a person who is oblivious to changes, esp in social attitudes or thought 2. a person who sleeps a lot Word origin C19: from a character who slept for 20 years, in a story (1819) by Washington Irving (1783–1859), US writerRip van Winkle in American English (ˌrɪp væn ˈwɪŋkəl) the title character of a story (1819) by Washington Irving: Rip awakens after a twenty-year sleep to find everything changed |
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