a. clotted凝结的。
△Rom.3.2.56:“All in goreblood;”满身都是结干的血。
gore
vt.
1. pierce,stab刺破,戳。
△As.2.1.24: “Should intheir own confines with forked heads / Have their round haunches gored.”竟要在他们自己的领地之内让他们圆肥的后腿被箭镞戳破。
△Tw.2.5.118(105): “But si-lence,like a Lucrece knife,/ With bloodless strokemy heart doth gore;”但是沉默,像鲁克丽丝的刀,不见血地戳穿了我的心。
2. hurt,wound deeply损伤,深深伤害。
△H.V.4.1.175(164): “some,making the wars their bulwark,thathave before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pil-lage and robbery.” (Peace is personified as a gentlewoman easily hurt. )有些兵,把战争当做他们的庇护所,因为他们从前曾经抢劫掠夺,破坏了社会的和平秩序。
Gore[gɔ:]
n.戈尔[Charles, (1853~1932年),英国主教]