Pharisee
['færisi:]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions.
(noun.) a self-righteous or sanctimonious person.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.
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解釋/意思:
n. one of a religious school among the Jews marked by their strict observance of the law and of religious ordinances: any one more careful of the outward forms than of the spirit of religion a formalist.—adjs. Pharisā′ic -al pertaining to or like the Pharisees: hypocritical.—adv. Pharisā′ically.—ns. Pharisā′icalness; Phar′isāism Phar′iseeism the practice and opinions of the Pharisees: strict observance of outward forms in religion without the spirit of it: hypocrisy.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Her religion must have been that of the Pharisee who thanked God that he was not as other men are, nor even as that publican. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Between the Mussulman and the Pharisee, commend me to the first! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- More than any other fetish it has ruined our sense of political values by glorifying the pharisee with his vain cruelty to individuals and his unfounded approval of himself. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Are we only Pharisees after all? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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