| 釋義 |
wearingpr. p. wearing papers: Perjurers at this period were pun-ished by being publicly exposed wearing paper play-cards which set forth their guilt.帶著罪狀牌子——莎士比亞時(shí)代對(duì)發(fā)假誓者的一種懲罰。 △L.L.L.4.3.48 (46):“Why,he comes in like a perjure,wearing papers.”嘿,他真像是一個(gè)發(fā)過(guò)假誓的人,身上還帶著一紙罪狀哩。(cf. △L.L.L.4.3.125 (123): “perjured note”,背誓的罪狀。) |