Sodom
['sɔdəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Gomorrah) was destroyed by God for the wickedness of its inhabitants.
(noun.) any location known for vice and corruption.
整理:维维安--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- But they are apples of Sodom, as a matter of fact, Dead Sea Fruit, gall-apples. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Scylla and Cha--confound it, I thought it was Sodom and Gomorrah! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The first historical mention of a shoe is in the Old Testament, where Abraham refused to take as much as a shoe-latchet from the King of Sodom. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- And the only reason why the land don't sink under it, like Sodom and Gomorrah, is because it is _used_ in a way infinitely better than it is. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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