英语词汇“gum、tree”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

gum-tree

释义

ˈgum-tree
[f. gum n.² + tree.]
1. Any tree that exudes gum: spec.
a. Any tree of the genus eucalyptus;
b. Various species of the N. American genus Nyssa;
c. Sweet gum tree of the U.S., Liquidambar styraciflua.
1676T. Glover in Phil. Trans. XI. 628 There is likewise black Walnut,..Dogwood,..Gum-tree,..with several others.1756P. Browne Jamaica 338 The Gum Tree..yields a great quantity of resin,..which serves for the boiling house lamps.1798Malthus Popul. (1878) 14 Found in the body of the dwarf gum-tree.1846J. L. Stokes Discov. Australia II. iii. 108 The silvery stems of the never-failing gum-trees.1870Wilson Austral. Songs 140 The gum-trees ghastly shadows downward threw.
attrib.1852G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes (1857) 4 The leaden tint of the gum-tree foliage.
2. Phrases. to be up a gum-tree: to be in great difficulties. Cf. tree n. 'possum up a gum-tree: the title of a song or dance. (Austral.) he has seen his last gum-tree = it is all up with him.
1829in Amer. Speech (1965) XL. 131 Dere's possum up de gum tree.1837Thackeray Ravenswing vii, 'Possum up a gum-tree, eh?1840Haliburton Clockm. Ser. iii. xxi, Many's the time I have danced ‘Possum up a gum tree’ at a quiltin' frolic or huskin' party.1926D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness iii. 86 S'long as they're in his trousers pocket you're up a gum-tree.1927Daily Express 15 July 1/4 Captain Lancaster cannot obtain any information, and, as he says, he is ‘up a gum tree’.1959Encounter Nov. 60/2 Until somebody solves the problem of an English idiom we're going to be up a gum-tree.
Hence ˈgum-treed a., grown with gum-trees.
1883P. Robinson Sinners & Saints 309 Modesta, a queer, wide-streeted, gum-treed place.

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