balm of Gilead
基本解釋
- 乳香(出自圣經(jīng))
英漢例句
- Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines;
埃及的民哪(注:“民”原文作“處女”),可以上基列取乳香去; - Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
埃及的民(原文作處女)哪,可以上基列取乳香去。 你雖多服良藥,總是徒然,不得治好。 - Others, in this age of instability, fell prey to con men, such as Samuel Solomon, who made a fortune selling his cure-all secret recipe “Balm of Gilead”.
另外一些人在這個不安定的年代中走向了反人類的歧途。 例如薩繆爾?索羅門通過出售他的百寶丹秘方“基烈軟膏”大賺了一筆。
雙語例句
英英字典
- any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin &rarrcompare balm , myrrh