单词 | taws |
释义 | taws taws AHD: [tôz] D.J. [t%8z]K.K. [t%z]pl.n.Chiefly Scots (复数名词)【多用于苏格兰】 1. A whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.鞭子:一种用来打转陀螺的鞭子或皮条2. A leather whip divided at the end into strips, formerly used to punish children:皮鞭:一种尾端分叉成许多细线的皮鞭,一般都是用来惩罚小孩子的:“Solider Aristotle played the taws/Upon the bottom of a king of kings”(&b{William Butler Yeats})“亚里士多德兵士抽打着皮鞭/就在众王之王底下”(威廉·巴特勒·叶慈)语源:From taw 1From taw 1 |
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