| 词汇 | icebound |
| 词源 | icebound. Icebound means to be held “fast by ice,” hemmed in, frozen in, as a ship might be. Figuratively, the word has been used to describe a cold, reserved person unable to care or show emotion. Icebound is the title of a 1922 Pulitizer Prize–winning play by Owen Davis about the tight-lipped, icebound Jordan family. |
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