Genesis
['dʒenɪsɪs] or ['dʒɛnəsɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers.
(noun.) a coming into being.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.
(n.) The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.
(n.) Same as Generation.
編輯:玛杰里
解釋/意思:
n. generation creation or production: the first book of the Bible so called from its containing an account of the Creation:—pl. Gen′esēs.—adjs. Genes′iac -al Genesit′ic pertaining to Genesis.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I mistook the chapter, and book, and Testament--gospel for law, Acts for Genesis, the city of Jerusalem for the plain of Shinar. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Iron, somewhat more refractory, appeared later, but it also has an early history, and is mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible (Genesis iv. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- From passages in Genesis, it is clear that the colour of domestic animals was at that early period attended to. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The genesis of the electric motor began in 1821 with Faraday’s observation of the phenomenon of the conversion of an electric current into mechanical motion. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I wondered why the black man took such pains to discourse thus at length to enemies upon the genesis of life Barsoomian. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- They constitute the first ten chapters of Genesis. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- With that, Genesis, the first book of the Pentateuch, ends. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To the book of Genesis the reader must go to read how Abraham, being childless, doubted this promise, and of the births of Ishmael and Isaac. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She recalled again the old magic of the Book of Genesis, where the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The first mention of time which we have is found in the Book of Genesis, where it is written and the evening and the morning were the first day. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- See what Scripture says about dreams and their fulfilment (Genesis xl. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
錄入:门罗