Fiddler's Green

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英文释义

专有名词
  1. A legendary afterlife for retired sailors, where there is perpetual mirth, fiddle music, and dancing.
    — Sam Tyler: Where to now? Gene Hunt: Fiddler's Green. Sam Tyler: I hope that's the name of a pub.
  2. A place of frolic on shore. dated,slang
  3. A stopping place for fallen cavalrymen on the path to the afterlife. US
    — 1996, Edward L. Daily, We Remember: U.S. Cavalry Association, Turner Publishing Company, page 7, Fiddler's Green is where a cavalryman meets his comrades who have gone before him, at an old canteen, surrounded by a broad meadow, dotted with trees and crossed by many streams. Here the cavalryman stops, unsaddles his horse, and joins his comrades for a visit with many stories, reminiscences, and camaraderie, before continuing his journey. Soldiers of no other service may stop at Fiddler's Green, they must continue to march.

词形变化

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词源

From 19th-century English maritime folklore.
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