Lawrence

['lɒrəns]

解释:

(noun.) a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856.

(noun.) English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930).

(noun.) United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958).

(noun.) English actress (1898-1952).

(noun.) English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830).

(noun.) Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935).

(noun.) 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).

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