Lawrence
英 ['lɒrəns]
美
- n. 劳伦斯（男子名）
英英释意
- 1. Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the Church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
- 2. Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
- 3. English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
- 4. English actress (1898-1952)
- 5. United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
- 6. English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
- 7. a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856