Lambeth
英 ['læmbəθ]
美
英文词源
- Lambeth
- used metonymically for "Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury," 1859, from the archbishop's palace in Lambeth, a South London borough. The Lambeth Walk was a Cockney song and dance, popularized in Britain 1937 in the revue "Me and my Gal," named for a street in the borough. The place name is Old English lambehyðe, "place where lambs are embarked or landed."
双语例句
- 1. Opposite this grandeur, on the Surrey side, were the dingy warehouses and factories of Lambeth.
- 在这壮观的景物对面, 在萨里这一边, 是兰贝斯的脏污的栈房和一家家工厂.
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