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The Bible has been the most influential text in all of Western culture. It's difficult to understand medieval or early modern or much of modern literature without knowing it...

Prof. Barbara Newman, Northwestern University
from 2006 Bible Literary project

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It's not that it's impossible to read some writers without a Biblical background, but that you would miss a whole dimension to their work.

Prof. Steven Goldsmith, University of California at Berkeley
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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I can only say that if a student doesn't know any Bible literature, he or she will simply not understand whole elements of Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth

Prof. Robert Kiely, Harvard University
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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...there is truth in the remark. "without Tyndale[Bible translator], no Shakespeare"...

Prof. David Daniell, University College London
from The Bible in English

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You can't really study Western literature intelligently or coherently without starting with the Bible.

Prof. Gerald L. Bruns, University of Notre Dame
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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...a familiar understanding of Christian doctrine in historical perspective thus contributes to a fuller appreciation of Shakespeare's art, but Shakespeare's art

Prof. Roland M. Frye
from Shakespeare and the Christian Doctrine

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In English tradition and also for an American tradition begun by Puritan writers, a knowledge of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament is even more crucial than classical references.

Prof. Ulrich Knoefplmacher, Princeton University
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundametal to the study of English literature and language.

Prof. David Jasper and Prof. Stephen Prickett
from the Bible and literature

A hair’s breadth 毫发的距离(士师记20:16)

图片说明: Hair
图片版权: V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

圣经经文

“Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.” (Judges 20:16) “在众军之中有拣选的七百精兵,都是左手便利的,能用机弦甩石打人,毫发不差。”(士师记20:16)

意思

“a hair’s breadth”意为非常狭小的地方或短小的空隙。

来源及应用

以下是“arise as one man”故事的后续。以色列人听闻利未人的小妾被便雅悯人强暴后,决定齐心对抗便雅悯族。以色列人让便雅悯人把那些龌龊的匪徒交出来。但是便雅悯人不服从,更调动了两万六千个士兵应战,其中的七百精兵能用机弦甩石打人,毫发不差(at a hair’s breadth)。

例句

The gang escaped the police at a hair’s breadth. 歹徒在千钧一发间逃脱警方追捕。

Keywords

arise    breadth    hair    short   

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