Balaam
[beilæm]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.
編輯:斯坦利
解釋/意思:
n. a prophet who strives to mislead like Balaam in Numb. xxii.-xxiv.: unimportant paragraphs kept in readiness to fill up a newspaper.—ns. Bā′laam-box or -bas′ket a place in which paragraphs such as the foregoing are kept in readiness; Bā′laamite.—adj. Bālaamit′ical.
整理:尼古拉斯
例句/造句/用法:
- It was almost as amusing to the Victorian English as the story of Balaam's ass. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He did not mention that he was a lineal descendant of Balaam's ass, but everybody knew that without his telling it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Like Balaam and other unwilling prophets, the agents seem moved by an inner compulsion to say and do their allotted parts whether they will or no. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
整理:尼古拉斯