Kathleen Mavourneen

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. indefinite; which may not have an end for years, if ever attributive
    — There is a sort of loan with which I have been made familiar that might be called a Kathleen Mavourneen loan — it may be for a year and it may be forever, but the promises made by the Huguenots were for a year and were forever and were redeemed every day.

词源

With reference to a popular Irish ballad, Kathleen Mavourneen, which includes the line “It may be for years, and it may be forever.”
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