“Adelphi”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Adelphi

释义

Adelphi|əˈdɛlfɪ|
The name of a group of buildings in London between the Strand and the Thames, laid out by the four brothers, James, John, Robert, and William Adam (see Adam²) and hence called Adelphi (Gr. ἀδελϕοί brothers); the name of the theatre in the vicinity of these buildings, at which a certain type of melodrama was prevalent c 1882–1900, and so allusively.
1894Queen 17 Mar. 432/1 Those who expected that the advent of a new Adelphi dramatist would be marked by a new development in Adelphi drama.1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 517/1 The ‘Adelphi’ as opposed to the ‘Drury Lane’ type of drama has recently died out in the West End.1903Chesterton R. Browning ii. 45 A whiff from an Adelphi melodrama.1928― Generally Speaking 231 His trouble cannot have been as deep as hell and as shallow as an Adelphi play.

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