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An oubliette is a cruel little prison room in an old castle. It is often under the floor, with the only way in a hole in the ceiling: guards dropped a person in and, in a manner of speaking, left them there. That is the point of the name. It was borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier, to forget — a room for someone you mean to forget. You meet it in history and in stories about castles, not in daily talk. It is narrower than dungeon: a dungeon is any castle prison; an oubliette is the “forget-you” kind, usually entered from above. Say it roughly oo-blee-ET.
密牢(多從頂部進出的地牢)
組成Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (to forget).
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
oubliettenoun/uːbliˈɛt/
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A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.
- Le Chiffre's two cards followed them with a faint rattle which comes from the canister at the beginning of each session before the discards have made a cushion over the metal floor of their oubliette.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。