burton
burton1
noun
burton2
(亦作 burton-tackle)
noun
noun
- (用于短语 go for a burton)(Brit. informal)meet with disaster; be ruined, destroyed, or killed
(英，非正式)遇难，被毁（害），丧命
- Second World War (originally RAF slang): perhaps referring to Burton ale, from Burton-upon-Trent
burton2
(亦作 burton-tackle)
noun
- (historical)a light two-block tackle for hoisting
(史)复滑车，辘轳，滑车（组）
- early 18th cent.: alteration of Middle English Breton tackle, a nautical term of the same sense (see Breton)
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