go/turn green / rabbits guzzler

go/turn green
to look pale and ill as if you are going to vomit


Verb: feed upon

1. Be sustained by
   - feed on

Derived forms: fed upon, feeding upon, feeds upon

Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler

guzzler

Edward Lear _33/112
(1812-1888)
A Book of Nonsense
No. 33
There was an Old Person whose habits

There was an Old Person whose habits,
Induced him to feed upon rabbits;
When he'd eaten eighteen,
He turned perfectly green,
Upon which he relinquished those habits.

從前從前有個老頭子，
他習慣吃兔子；
當他吃完第十八隻，
腸胃已經完全不支，
於是他放棄了其餘的兔子。

RL初譯於 2004/08/21