英语词汇to bishop的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	to bishop
词源	to bishop. Unlike burke, which it resembles, the expression to bishop is used only historically today, although the words arose at about the same time and for essentially the same reason. To bishop is to murder by drowning. It is named for a Mr. Bishop, who in 1831 so murdered a little boy in Bethnal Green, England in order to sell the child’s body to surgeons for dissection, the murderer probably influenced by the earlier work of Burke and Hare.
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