| 釋義 |
forkeda.
1. dividing into two 分叉的。
△2H.IV.3.2.336 (310):“When ’a was naked,he wasfor all the world like a forked radish,with a head fantastically carved upon it with aknife.”他脫光了衣服，活像一根兩條腿的蘿卜，在上頭用刀子刻了一個(gè)奇形怪狀的腦袋。
2. barbed 帶倒鉤的。 forked head: barbed arrow with the two pointsstretching outward,arrow head 帶倒刺的箭，箭頭。
△As.2.1.24: “Should in their own confines with forked heads / Have their round haunches gored.”竟要在它們自己的領(lǐng)地之內(nèi)讓它們圓肥的后腿被箭鏃戳破。
3. two-legged 兩條腿的。
△Lr. 3. 4. 109 (106):“unac-commodated man is no more but such a poor,bare,forked animal as thou art. ”原來什么衣服也不穿的人不過就是像你這樣的一個(gè)可憐的、赤條條的兩腳動物。
4. horned,(hence) cuckolded有角的，（引申為）戴綠頭巾的。
△Oth.3.3.276:“Even then this forked plague isfated to us / When we do quicken.”我們在娘胎里的時(shí)候，這種戴綠頭巾的災(zāi)難就由命運(yùn)給我們注定了。 |