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forkeda. 1. dividing into two 分叉的。 △2H.IV.3.2.336 (310):“When ’a was naked,he wasfor all the world like a forked radish,with a head fantastically carved upon it with aknife.”他脱光了衣服,活像一根两条腿的萝卜,在上头用刀子刻了一个奇形怪状的脑袋。 2. barbed 带倒钩的。 forked head: barbed arrow with the two pointsstretching outward,arrow head 带倒刺的箭,箭头。 △As.2.1.24: “Should in their own confines with forked heads / Have their round haunches gored.”竟要在它们自己的领地之内让它们圆肥的后腿被箭镞戳破。 3. two-legged 两条腿的。 △Lr. 3. 4. 109 (106):“unac-commodated man is no more but such a poor,bare,forked animal as thou art. ”原来什么衣服也不穿的人不过就是像你这样的一个可怜的、赤条条的两脚动物。 4. horned,(hence) cuckolded有角的,(引申为)戴绿头巾的。 △Oth.3.3.276:“Even then this forked plague isfated to us / When we do quicken.”我们在娘胎里的时候,这种戴绿头巾的灾难就由命运给我们注定了。 |