| 释义 |
‖ ex nihilo, phr.|ɛks ˈnaɪhɪləʊ|
[L. ex out of + nihilō, ablative of nihil nothing.]
Out of nothing.
1573–80G. Harvey Letter-Bk. (1884) 132 And then, in a fantasticall fitt, I cried owte, Ex nihilo nihil fitt. 1656T. Reck Annotations upon Relig. Med. in T. Browne Relig. Med. (ed. 4) 209 They had defined creation to be the production of a thing ex nihilo. 1681T. Goodwin Wks. I. i. xxvi. 341 The work of Grace is a work of Creation; and why a Creation? Because 'tis ex nihilo. 1855Punch 17 Feb. 69/2 (heading) Ex Nihilo nihil fit—or unfit. 1920M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism II. iv. xiv. 277 No man creates ex nihilo, but out of the materials supplied to him by his predecessors, his contemporaries, and his own experience. 1963Auden Dyer's Hand i. 23 Even the language of Finnegans Wake was not created by Joyce ex nihilo. 1965J. D. North Meas. of Universe xviii. 399 The difficulty of accepting the idea of a creation ex nihilo was the source of much medieval casuistry. |