n. negligence,neglect,disregard 疏忽,玩忽,忽视。sleeping neglection: negligent disregard玩忽漠视。△1H.VI.4.3.49:“Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss / The conquest of our scarce-cold conqueror,”玩忽军机把我们尸骨未寒的征服者的胜利大业轻轻断送了。...[继续阅读]

    n. thread of spiders web,cobweb-likethread floating in the air 蛛丝,游丝。△Rom.2.6.18:“A lover may bestride the gossamers / That idles in the wanton summer air,/ And yet not fall;”一个恋爱中的人可以跨上夏天空中随风飘荡的游丝,也落不下来。△Lr.4.6.50(49): “Hads...[继续阅读]

    n. traitor,rogue; cheat,impostor叛贼,流氓;骗子。△2H.IV.2.4.171 (159): “Down,down,dogs!down. faitors!”下去,下去,畜生们! 下去,奸贼!...[继续阅读]

    pr. p. tasting (of),having a touch (of),tainted (with) 有…气味,有一点…,沾染有…△Mac.4.3.59:“smacking of every sin /That has a name;”叫得出名字的罪恶他都沾染。...[继续阅读]

    now called lona,an island off the west coast of Scotland. where Scottish kings were then bur-ied戈姆基尔,现名艾欧那,苏格兰岛名,古时为苏格兰国王墓地所在。△Mac.2.4.33:“Carried to Colmekill,/The sa-cred store-house of his predecessors/And guardian oftheir bones.”抬到了戈...[继续阅读]

    longing,desirous渴望的 △R. Ⅱ.5.2.13: “So many greedy looks of young and old /Through casements darted their desiring eyes / Upon hisvisage;”那么多青年和老人的热烈的面孔都通过窗口把他们渴望的眼光投射到他的脸上。...[继续阅读]

    flow with whirling motion,curl旋转地流动,盘旋△Lucr. 1405: “In speech it seemed his beard,all silverwhite,/Wagged up and down,and from his lips did fly/Thin winding breath,which purled up to the sky.”(Shakespeare uses such words and phrases as “wagged upand down”...[继续阅读]

    pa. p.joined. allied. linked结合,联合,连结△Ham.1.2.21: “Colleagued with this dream of hisadvantage,”单凭着他处于优势的这种梦想。...[继续阅读]

    a. bottle-shaped,shaped like a leather bottle,big-bellied形似瓶子的,形状像皮瓶似的,大肚子的。△R.Ⅲ.1.3.242(241):“Why strew’st thou sugar on that bot-tled spider,/Whose deadly web ensnareth theeabout?”你为什么还把糖洒在那鼓肚子的蜘蛛身上,既然它那要命的毒...[继续阅读]

    p. a. unlawfully begotten,illegitimate,of a bad origin 非法生出的,私生的,血统不正的。△1H.IV.2.4.249 (221): “three misbegotten knaves in Kendalgreen”.三个身穿肯德尔绿粗布衣的杂种。△ 1H.VI.4.6.21:“Contaminated,base,/ And misbegotten bloodspill of thine,”我使你流...[继续阅读]