brimstone

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɹɪmstəʊn/    美 /ˈbɹɪmstoʊn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation. countable,uncountable
    — For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew.
  2. Sulfur. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone, and suchlike sweetmeats.
  3. A whore. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — I went to the park, picked up a low Brimstone, called myself a Barber, & agreed with her for Sixpence, went to the bottom of the park, arm in arm, & dipped my machine in the Canal […].
  4. Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!
  5. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family. countable,uncountable
  6. Online content of exceptionally poor quality, lower than coal. Internet,countable,uncountable

词形变化

brimstones plural

词汇关系

衍生词
brimstone flower brimstone match brimstonewort brimstony fire and brimstone rain fire and brimstone

词源

From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to burn + stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur / sulphur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone. Although once a synonym for sulfur, the word is now largely restricted to poetic and Biblical usage.
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