Struldbrug

词形变化

Struldbrugs 复数 Struldbrugs

别名

struldbrug Struldbrugg struldbrugg

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Someone or something that is immortal or extremely ancient, but which may have persisted past the point where it should be dead.

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词源

From Struldbrug, the name given to a fictional race of senile immortals inhabiting the island of Luggnagg who are legally declared dead at the age of 80 and continue to age, coined by Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.

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