sleep under the same bridge

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To be formally, but not actually, equal under the law, due to circumstances being ignored.
    — The equally enforced prohibition not to sleep under the same bridge does not signify the reign of equality but rather its opposite for those without homes.

词形变化

sleeps under the same bridge present,singular,third-person sleeping under the same bridge participle,present slept under the same bridge participle,past slept under the same bridge past

词源

An allusion to “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under the bridge, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”, a translation from the French "La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain", Le Lys rouge, The Red Lily, 1894.
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