Dives
['daivi:z]
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:耶鲁
解釋/意思:
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.
錄入:尼科尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Spyers loses sight of him a minute as he turns a corner; shoots round; sees a little crowd; dives in; Which is the man? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Are you not glad, Caroline, when at last, and with a wild shriek, she dives? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Rolling it in loops and in dives. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Your friendship for Dives is about as sincere as the return which it usually gets. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- When it is brown, he dives again and produces butter, with which he completes his work. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- What guest at Dives's table can pass the familiar house without a sigh? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
錄入:尼科尔