| 釋義 |
swoopstaken. sweepstake,i. e. taking all the stakes in a game at once; sweeping up everything withoutdiscrimination門前清，（指）在一次賭博中獨(dú)贏全部賭注；（轉(zhuǎn)義）不分青紅皂白掃蕩一切。
△ Ham. 4. 5. 140(142): “is’twrit in your revenge / That,swoopstake,you willdraw both friend and foe,/ Winner and loser?”在你的報仇計(jì)劃當(dāng)中，你是不是不分?jǐn)秤眩徽搫儇?fù)，一網(wǎng)打盡？ (按：swoopstake，另解為ad. in a clean sweep,indiscrimi-nately，“一掃而光地，不加區(qū)別地”。) |