Struldbrug

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something that is immortal or extremely ancient, but which may have persisted past the point where it should be dead. literary
    — It might be thought a precedent, and he would not like it; he who is to inherit the place when that old Struldbrug, Gotham, is withered and cast away, when that old log is so barnacle-bored as to be worthless.

词形变化

Struldbrugs plural struldbrug alternative struldbrugg alternative Struldbrugg alternative

词源

From Struldbrug, the name given to a fictional race of senile immortals inhabiting the island of Luggnagg who are legally declared dead at the age of 80 and continue to age, coined by Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.
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