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词组 in your cups
释义

in your cups while drunk. informal

In your cups is now used mainly to mean 'drunk', but in former times the phrase could also mean 'during a drinking bout'. Either could be intended in the passage in the Apocrypha regarding the strength of wine: 'And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords' (1 Esdras 3:22).

1948Vladimir NabokovLetter I have received your letter… and can only excuse its contents by assuming that you were in your cups when you wrote it.

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