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Coventry

音標['kɔvəntri] 讀音

漢語翻譯


n. 考文垂
相關詞組:
send sb to Coventry

英文解釋：

名詞 coventry:

  1. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
    同義詞：banishment, ostracism
  2. an industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century

例句：

  1. If you tell tales about other boys in school, you'll be sent to Coventry.
    如果你在學校里說其他孩子的壞話，就沒有人再和你交往了。
  2. People who go on working when their Union calls a strike are often sent to Coventry by their workmates.
    當工會號召罷工時，繼續做工的人經常受到其他工人的抵制。
  3. Men who refused to strike were sent to coventry by their colleagues.
    凡是不參加罷工的人，同事都不理睬他們。

詳細解釋：


Coventry

NONE（無詞性）
A city of central England east-southeast of Birmingham. Famous as the home of Lady Godiva in the th century, Coventry was severely damaged in air raids during World War II (November 940). Population, 38,'00.
考文垂市：英格蘭中部城市，位於伯明罕東南偏東。因是世紀戈黛娃夫人的家鄉而著名，二戰中（940年月），考文垂受到空襲的極嚴重破壞。人口38,'00
A town of west-central Rhode Island southwest of Providence. It was settled in '43 and was formerly a noted lacemaking center. Population, 3,083.
考文垂鎮：羅得島州中西部一鎮，在普羅維登斯西南部。'43年有移民到這裡，在此之前是著名飾帶製造中心。人口3,083

Coventry
Coventry 2

n.（名詞）
A state of ostracism or exile:
放逐，流放：放逐或流放的狀態：
例句：
.It`s not that smoke-filled rooms are back; smokers huddle in Coventry these days.(Flora Lewis)
.煙霧迷漫的房間不會再回來了；吸菸者現在都被驅逐了.(弗洛拉·劉易斯)

來源：
After Coventry [England (possibly from the sending of Royalist prisoners there during the English Civil War)]
源自 Coventry[英格蘭（大概因為英國內戰期間保王黨囚犯被流放到那裡）]

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