Cain
[kein]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God.
整理:理查德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
n. a murderer from Cain who killed his brother Abel (Gen. iv.).—adj. Cain′-col′oured (Shak.) reddish the traditional colour of the hair of Cain and Judas.—n. Cain′ite a descendant of Cain: a member of a 2d-century set of Gnostics who revered Cain and Judas.
n. in old Scots law rent paid in kind esp. in poultry &c.—To pay the cain to pay the penalty.
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例句/造句/用法:
- He's as like Cain before he was grown up, as he can be. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- A sense of Cain-like desolation made my breast ache. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I will have no Cain and Abel strife here. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He had killed his brother when a boy, and was set apart, like Cain. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The civilisation of to-day would not have been possible if the successors of Tubal Cain had not been like him, instructors of every artificer in brass and iron. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- We have seen Titian's celebrated Cain and Abel, his David and Goliah, his Abraham's Sacrifice. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Then he remembered, with a slight shock, that that was Cain's cry. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Not that he was Cain, either, although he had slain his brother. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And Gerald was Cain, if anybody. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Cain might have looked as lonely and avoided. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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