| 釋義 |
hobnailn.
1. nail used for shoeing horses上馬掌用的釘子，馬蹄釘。
△1H.IV.2.4.401 (361): “if there come a hot Juneand this civil buffeting hold,we shall buy maiden-heads as they buy hobnails,by the hundreds.” i.e.maidenheads will be cheaply obtained. (Given the heat of summer and the going on of civil war,maid-enheads will corrupt like stinking fish because soldiers rape and pillage in this time of disorder.)要是來一個炎熱的夏天，而且這場內(nèi)戰(zhàn)還繼續(xù)下去的話，我們就可以像人家買馬蹄釘一樣成百地買大閨女。
2. boot nail鞋釘。
△2H.VI.4.10.61 (58):“I beseechGod on my knees thou mayst be turned to hobnails.”i.e. melted down and recast as boot nails. 我就跪求上帝把你回爐打成鞋釘。 |