Abraham
['eibrə,hæm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son; 'Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each has a special claim on Abraham'.
錄入:纳塔莉亚--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- There follows a history of the fathers and founders of the Hebrew nation, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Abraham weighs to Ephron the four hundred shekels of silver which he had agreed to pay for the field of Machpelah. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Damascus dates back anterior to the days of Abraham, and is the oldest city in the world. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Abraham in red going to sacrifice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yellow cast into a den of green lions, were the most prominent of these. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- This reflection does not, however, abate in the slightest our sense of bereavement in the untimely loss of so good and great a man as Abraham Lincoln. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- New names appear on the records, Lord Brouncker, Sir Robert Moray, John Evelyn, Brereton, Ball, Robert Hooke, and Abraham Cowley. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- This was in the days of the patriarch Abraham. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- We descended to the Plain again, and halted a moment at a well--of Abraham's time, no doubt. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It inspired a great number of Babylonians and the like to claim Abraham as their father, and thrust their company upon the returning Jews. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Abraham and Moses were strangers in the land, and we are told to entertain strangers. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There was a frontispiece to the volume, representing Abraham sacrificing Isaac. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The God of Abraham, says the Bible narrative, promised this smiling land of prosperous cities to him and to his children. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Not a shekel, not a silver penny, not a halfling--so help me the God of Abraham! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- By Ferguson I mean our dragoman Abraham, of course. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Wells were coeval with Abraham when his servant had the celebrated interview with Rebecca. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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