Dives
['daivi:z]
解释:
(n.) The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.
编辑:耶鲁
解释:
n. a name used as if a proper name for the rich man at whose gate Lazarus lay (Luke xvi. 19): a rich and luxurious person.—n. Div′itism condition of being rich.
录入:尼科尔
例句:
- Spyers loses sight of him a minute as he turns a corner; shoots round; sees a little crowd; dives in; Which is the man? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Are you not glad, Caroline, when at last, and with a wild shriek, she dives? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Rolling it in loops and in dives. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Your friendship for Dives is about as sincere as the return which it usually gets. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I got this box at old Dives's sale, Pincher says, handing it round, one of Louis XV's mistresses--pretty thing, is it not? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- When it is brown, he dives again and produces butter, with which he completes his work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- What guest at Dives's table can pass the familiar house without a sigh? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
录入:尼科尔