| 词汇 | standing dead |
| 词源 | standing dead. A colorful name given by firefighters to trees left standing in a forest fire. Wrote Richard Ford in Wildlife (1990): “ ‘Do you know what they call the trees that’re left up when the fire goes by?’ ‘No,’ I said. ‘The standing dead,’ my mother said. ‘Don’t they have an interesting terminology for things?’ ” |
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