英语词汇the hulks的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the hulks
词源	the Hulks. Old dismasted vessels anchored and used as pris- on ships in the 18th and 19th centuries. Charles Dickens men- tions them in chapter 2 of Great Expectations (1860–61): “People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad . . .” The British used such ships to hold American prisoners during the Revolutionary War.
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