hairshirt
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈhɛəʃɜːt/
美 /ˈhɛɹʃɝt/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A shirt made of haircloth; especially one worn by ascetics or the penitent.
— He is practically a total abstainer and I can affirm that he sleeps on a straw litter and eats the most Spartan food, cold dried grocer’s peas. He wears a hairshirt winter and summer and scourges himself every Saturday.
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A state of penitence and humility.
— And when he went on to say, “The curse must be within ourselves,” Muir bequeathed us a hairshirt: the guilty conscience that plagues so many of us when we see what we are doing to the rest of nature.
形容词 adj.
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Advocating or adopting a relatively ascetic lifestyle, especially for environmentalist reasons.
— The gloomy contentions of “hairshirt economists” who want more public and less private spending were assailed today by Robert W. Sarnoff, chairman of the National Broadcasting Company.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From hair + shirt.
词源 2
From hair + shirt.
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