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词汇 Bluebeard
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Definition of Bluebeard in English:

Bluebeard

proper nounˈbluːbɪədˈblubɪrd
  • 1A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400–40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him).

    蓝胡子(查理·佩罗所创作的故事中的人物,此人将几任前妻的遗体锁在一房间中,并命令现任妻子不得入内,但妻子没有照办,他为此又杀了几任妻子;布列塔尼当地传统认为此人就是惯于暴行者吉尔斯·德·莱斯 约1400-1440,不过他只有一位妻子,且离开了他)

    1. 1.1as noun a Bluebeard A man who murders his wives.
      连续杀妻者
      you seem to imply I'm some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We have graduated in a single generation from the bogeyman of the Vietnam vet turned sociopath to the bogeyman of the antiwar radical turned Bluebeard.
      • In my mind he assumes the proportions of a Bluebeard, all the more sinister for being so thoroughly outwardly respectable.
      • Yet Torquilstone is more of a Bluebeard's castle than a Briar Rose's castle, ruled over as it is by a Norman robber baron.
      • Every effort to locate either earlier tellings of these two tales has failed, a real-world Bluebeard who murdered wives in his castle is a post-Perrault creation.

Definition of Bluebeard in US English:

Bluebeard

proper nounˈblo͞obirdˈblubɪrd
  • 1A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400–40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him).

    蓝胡子(查理·佩罗所创作的故事中的人物,此人将几任前妻的遗体锁在一房间中,并命令现任妻子不得入内,但妻子没有照办,他为此又杀了几任妻子;布列塔尼当地传统认为此人就是惯于暴行者吉尔斯·德·莱斯 约1400-1440,不过他只有一位妻子,且离开了他)

    1. 1.1as noun a Bluebeard A man who murders his wives.
      连续杀妻者
      you seem to imply I'm some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Every effort to locate either earlier tellings of these two tales has failed, a real-world Bluebeard who murdered wives in his castle is a post-Perrault creation.
      • We have graduated in a single generation from the bogeyman of the Vietnam vet turned sociopath to the bogeyman of the antiwar radical turned Bluebeard.
      • In my mind he assumes the proportions of a Bluebeard, all the more sinister for being so thoroughly outwardly respectable.
      • Yet Torquilstone is more of a Bluebeard's castle than a Briar Rose's castle, ruled over as it is by a Norman robber baron.
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