| 釋義 |
hangmann.
1. one who executes by hanging,executioner 絞刑吏，劊子手。
△Oth.1.1.34: “By heaven,I rather wouldhave been his hangman.”i. e. the one to hang him. 老天在上，我寧愿做絞死他的劊子手。
△Mac.2.2.29 (25):“As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.”(In Shakespeare's day hanging,which included draw-ing and quartering,was a butcher's job.)好像他們看見了我這一雙劊子手一般的血手。
△ Mer.4.1.125: “thehangman's axe，”劊子手的斧頭。
2. executioner.i. e. Cupid (Cupid's arrows were “fa-tal”.)劊子手，（指）愛神丘匹德(因為愛神之箭是“要命的”)。
△Ado.3.2.10:“He hath twice or thrice cut Cupid'sbow-string,and the little hangman dare not shoot athim.”他曾經兩三次割斷丘匹德的弓弦(意即：不墜入情網)，所以那個小鬼頭不敢射他。
hangman's: fit for the hangman 該絞死的，該死的。
△Gent.4.4.60 (55): “the other squirrel was stolenfrom me by the hangman's boys in the market-place；”那只小松鼠被市場上那些不得好死的小流氓給偷去了。 |