girdlen.
1. waist-belt腰帶。
△1H.IV.3.3.169(151):“Nay,an Ido. I pray God my girdle break.”(Proverb: “Ungirt.unblessed.”) 不，我要是那樣的話，就祈求上帝讓我的腰帶斷了吧。(按：英諺云“無腰帶，福不來”。)
2. waist-belt. (fig.) thing that encloses like a girdle,enclosure 腰帶，（比喻）圍繞物，圍墻。
△H.V.1.Prol.19.“Suppose within the girdle of these walls / Are nowconfined two mighty monarchies，”i.e.The audienceis asked to imagine that two great kingdoms(Englandand France) are shut in within the encircling walls ofthe theatre.請假想在劇場的墻壁圍繞之內(nèi)圈住了兩個強大的王國。
girdlevt.
1. encircle環(huán)繞。
△H.V.5.2.348(321): “for they areall girdled with maiden walls that war hath never en-tered.”因為這些城市都有“處女墻”環(huán)繞著，從未讓戰(zhàn)爭侵入過。2. embrace擁抱。
△R.III.4.3.10: “ ‘Thus,thus.’quoth Forrest，‘girdling one another / Within theiralablaster innocent arms.’”弗來斯特說，“這樣，這樣，他們用兩雙雪白的純潔無瑕的手臂互相擁抱著”。 girdle[?g?:dl]n.帶，帶狀物v.束，包圍，圍繞
‖ girdle traverse橫過山坡
girdling n.束腰 |