| 单词 | Gondal |
| 释义 | Gondal, n. and a.|ˈgɒndəl|
A. n. The name of an imaginary island invented by Emily and Anne Brontë; also, an inhabitant of this island. Also Gondaland.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this island. Hence ˈGondalan, Gonˈdalian |-ˈdeɪl-| adjs.
1834E. & A. Brontë Diary 24 Nov. in M. Spark Brontë Lett. (1966) 18 The Gondals are discovering the interior of Gaaldine. 1841E. Brontë Diary 30 July in C. W. Hatfield Poems E. J. Brontë (1941) 167 The Gondolians [sic] are at present in a threatening state, but there is no open rupture as yet. 1908C. Shorter Brontës Life & Lett. I. x. 215 The Gondaland Chronicles, to which reference is made, must remain a mystery for us. 1911J. M. Dembleby Key to Brontë Works i. 17 Emily Brontë..was writing, on July 30th, 1845, that she, Emily, was..engaged upon and intended to continue some puerile compositions called The Gondal Chronicles, which she spoke of as ‘delighting’ her and Anne. 1912M. Sinclair Three Brontës 193 There are no recognisable references to the Gondal poems. 1932C. Morgan in H. J. & H. Massingham Great Victorians 70 The opening of ‘The Prisoner’, telling how narrator and jailer visit a dungeon and speak with a female prisoner confined there, is evidently fictitious, probably Gondal. 1941F. E. Ratchford Brontës' Web of Childhood xiii. 252 Gondalan Vikings. 1941N. & Q. CLXXXI. 182/2 Those [sc. poems of Emily Brontë] which were prepared for publication had Gondalian names and references carefully expunged. 1966M. Spark Brontë Lett. 17 The Gondal manuscripts were not preserved, but the love..and excesses of the exotic people of Gondal moved in the poetry of Emily and Anne to the time of their latest compositions. |
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