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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

Deluge洪水 (创世纪7:10)

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圣经经文

意思

Deluge可用以借喻那些大得可以压倒一切的数目。

来源及应用

Deluge是指一场大洪灾。在挪亚的时代,世界上充斥着暴力和原罪。因此,上帝命令一场巨大洪灾席卷全球,夺取所有人类的生命。挪亚一家因为得到上帝的指示,建造了一艘方舟而幸免于难。这场洪水一种持续了40个日夜,将所有地球上的生命都夺走了,因此得名“大洪灾”。 Deluge可用以借喻那些大得可以压倒一切的数目。例如,IPO deluge就是指市场兴旺时公司一窝蜂上市的情况。

例句

Stranded Lantau residents who remain without running water and transport services more than 48 hours after the weekend deluge say they are running out of patience with the government. 周末洪水侵袭大屿山,困在其中的居民表示,他们已经对政府的工作失去了耐性。居民们已经在没有自来水和公共交通设施的地区滞留超过48个小时了。

Keywords

ark    deluge    flood    Noah    sin   

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