English Dictionary

white man's grave

名詞

古語

(archaic) Africa, or more specifically, western Africa or Sierra Leone. By extension, any other land subject to Western colonialism or missionizing that is comparably deadly.

日本語の意味

（古語）西洋の植民地支配や宣教師活動の下、特に西アフリカ（シエラレオネなど）など、白人にとって命取りとなる土地を指す表現。

Many missionaries from Europe hesitated to travel to the white man's grave, knowing that fever and infection took so many lives.

ヨーロッパからの多くの宣教師は、熱病や感染症が多くの命を奪っていたことを知り、かつて「白人の墓場」と呼ばれた西アフリカへの渡航をためらった。

意味（1）

(archaic) Africa, or more specifically, western Africa or Sierra Leone. By extension, any other land subject to Western colonialism or missionizing that is comparably deadly.

…for, until some great revolution in nature or some great and gradual human exertion takes place, it must ever prove the white man's grave, of which we have many lamentable proofs in the deaths of so many worthy and adventurous spirits who have fallen victims to research and humanity—Park, Peddie, Buchardt, Lander, Lang, Clapperton, Denham, Cooper, Thompson, &c. &c. &c.—all fallen through ferocity, treachery, or climate…

white men's graves （ plural ）