词汇 | strulbrug |
词源 | Strulbrug. Another word coined by Jonathan Swift in Gul- liver’s Travels (1726). The Strulbrug therein are people who never die, always remaining mentally and physically useless, hopeless wards of the state. See also brobdingnagian; lilliputian. |
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