英语词汇“chap-fallen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

chap-fallen

(also chop-fallen)

adjective archaic

With one’s lower jaw hanging due to extreme exhaustion or dejection.Some mocked the evacuation itself, as with one writer who ridiculed it as a ‘sudden and chop-fallen retreat’ that paled next to more ‘glorious feats of war.’...

‘Sorry I spoke,’ said Mr. Lathrope, rather chop-fallen at the way in which his suggestion had been taken.
Funeral pageantry is especially important in Hamlet ‘as a sign of human order rescued from the jaws of chap-fallen death itself’.

Origin

Late 16th century: from chap³.

单词	chap-fallen
释义	chap-fallen (also chop-fallen) adjective archaic With one’s lower jaw hanging due to extreme exhaustion or dejection.Some mocked the evacuation itself, as with one writer who ridiculed it as a ‘sudden and chop-fallen retreat’ that paled next to more ‘glorious feats of war.’... ‘Sorry I spoke,’ said Mr. Lathrope, rather chop-fallen at the way in which his suggestion had been taken. Funeral pageantry is especially important in Hamlet ‘as a sign of human order rescued from the jaws of chap-fallen death itself’. Origin Late 16th century: from chap³.
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