barmecide 中文意思是什麼
barmecide
解釋
n. 名詞 允許給人好處而不兌現的人，口惠而實不至的人。adj. 形容詞 口惠而實不至的，欺騙性的，虛偽的。
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Your lighter boxes of family papers went up - stairs into a barmecide room, that always had a great dining - table in it and never had a dinner, and where, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, the first letters written to you by your old love, or by your little children, were but newly released from the horror of being ogled through the windows, by the heads exposed on temple bar with an insensate brutality and ferocity worthy of abyssinia or ashantee
你裝有家庭文件的較輕的箱子則被送到樓上一間巴米賽德型的大廳里，那裡永遠有一張巨大的餐桌，卻從來沒擺過筵席。在那兒，即使到了一千七百八十年，你的情人給你寫的初戀的情書和你的幼年的孩子給你寫的最初的信件剛才免於受到一排首級窺看的恐怖不久。
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