dead letter

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An item of mail that cannot be delivered to its intended recipient; after some time it is returned to the sender, or destroyed.
  2. A law or other measure that is no longer enforced.
    — Laws are a dead letter, without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
  3. Anything that has lost its authority or influence despite still being in existence or formally in force. broadly
    — I have thought proper to premise thus much, lest the incredible tale I have to tell should be considered rather the raving of a crude imagination, than the positive experience of a mind to which the reveries of fancy have been a dead letter and a nullity.

词形变化

dead letters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dead letter office
相关词
letter of the law
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