Waterloo: [19] The decisive battle at which the army of Napoleon was finally defeated by British, Dutch, and Prussian forces was fought just outside the village of Waterloo, near Brussels in Belgium, on 18 June 1815. The word Waterloo soon came to be used metaphorically for a ‘final and crushing defeat, something that puts one hors de combat for ever’. The first record of this new application comes in a letter written in 1816 by Lord Byron to his friend Thomas Moore: ‘It [Armenian] is … a Waterloo of an Alphabet’.
Waterloo (n.)
village near Brussels; the great battle there took place June 18, 1815; extended sense of "a final, crushing defeat" is first attested 1816 in letter of Lord Byron. The second element in the place name is from Flemish loo "sacred wood."
雙語例句
1. Trains will operate from Waterloo with a pick-up stop at Ashford.
火車從滑鐵盧站出發，途中會在阿什福德站停靠上人。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He became a ticket collector at Waterloo Station.
他在滑鐵盧車站當上了一名檢票員。
來自柯林斯例句
3. the battle of Waterloo
滑鐵盧戰役
來自《權威詞典》
4. This was the point at which he was to meet his Waterloo .
這將會是他最終失敗之處。
來自《權威詞典》
5. The site of the battle of Waterloo is in Belgium.