Balaam
[beilæm]
解释:
(n.) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.
编辑:斯坦利
解释:
n. a prophet who strives to mislead like Balaam in Numb. xxii.-xxiv.: unimportant paragraphs kept in readiness to fill up a newspaper.—ns. Bā′laam-box or -bas′ket a place in which paragraphs such as the foregoing are kept in readiness; Bā′laamite.—adj. Bālaamit′ical.
整理:尼古拉斯
例句:
- It was almost as amusing to the Victorian English as the story of Balaam's ass. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He did not mention that he was a lineal descendant of Balaam's ass, but everybody knew that without his telling it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Like Balaam and other unwilling prophets, the agents seem moved by an inner compulsion to say and do their allotted parts whether they will or no. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
整理:尼古拉斯