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Coventry

英 ['kɔvəntri] 美
  • n. 考文垂(位于英国中部)

英英释意


1. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent);
"the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"
2. an industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century