Gunga Din

短语

词形变化

Gunga Dins 复数 Gunga Dins

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A water carrier (person employed to carry water).

    过时 俚语 政治 军事
  2. 2.

    A person who selflessly serves another.

词源

From an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling about an Indian water-carrier, Gunga Din, who saves a wounded soldier before being killed, remembered for its closing line: "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."

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