英语词汇“quick and the dead”的读音、翻译、释义、用法及例句-青年旅行网

the quick and the dead

Those alive and dead alike. Often used figuratively. ("Quick" has the archaic meaning of "alive" in this phrase.) Today we pay our respects as a nation for the quick and the dead who have fought, and continue to fight, for our freedom and safety. In this new, cutthroat market, there are only two categories of company—the quick and the dead.

quick and the dead

The living and the dead, as in The explosion was loud enough to wake the quick and the dead. Although quick has been used for "living" since the 9th century a.d., it survives only in this idiom and in cut to the quick, and may be obsolescent.

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The living and the dead. The word quick for “living” was used as far back as King Alfred’s time (cwicum in Middle English, ca. a.d. 897) but is rarely used in this meaning nowadays, except in this cliché and in cut to the quick. Amélie Rives used it as the title of her novel The Quick or the Dead (1888). A few decades later Britain’s Lord Dewar is quoted as saying, “There are two classes of pedestrians in these days of reckless motor traffic: the quick and the dead” (in George Robey, Looking Back on Life, 1933).

词汇	quick and the dead
释义	the quick and the dead Those alive and dead alike. Often used figuratively. ("Quick" has the archaic meaning of "alive" in this phrase.) Today we pay our respects as a nation for the quick and the dead who have fought, and continue to fight, for our freedom and safety. In this new, cutthroat market, there are only two categories of company—the quick and the dead. quick and the dead The living and the dead, as in The explosion was loud enough to wake the quick and the dead. Although quick has been used for "living" since the 9th century a.d., it survives only in this idiom and in cut to the quick, and may be obsolescent. quick and the dead, the The living and the dead. The word quick for “living” was used as far back as King Alfred’s time (cwicum in Middle English, ca. a.d. 897) but is rarely used in this meaning nowadays, except in this cliché and in cut to the quick. Amélie Rives used it as the title of her novel The Quick or the Dead (1888). A few decades later Britain’s Lord Dewar is quoted as saying, “There are two classes of pedestrians in these days of reckless motor traffic: the quick and the dead” (in George Robey, Looking Back on Life, 1933).
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