| 釋義 |
wearingpr. p.
wearing papers: Perjurers at this period were pun-ished by being publicly exposed wearing paper play-cards which set forth their guilt.帶著罪狀牌子——莎士比亞時代對發(fā)假誓者的一種懲罰。
△L.L.L.4.3.48 (46):“Why,he comes in like a perjure,wearing papers.”嘿，他真像是一個發(fā)過假誓的人，身上還帶著一紙罪狀哩。(cf.
△L.L.L.4.3.125 (123): “perjured note”，背誓的罪狀。) |