| 单词 | golden calf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgolden calf in calf, with calf (said of the cow): pregnant. golden calf: the idol set up by Aaron, and the similar images set up by Jeroboam; sometimes proverbially with reference to the ‘worship’ of wealth. ‘ the calves of our lips’ (a doubtful translation of a difficult Hebrew passage, in Hos. xiv. 2 where the Septuagint and Peschito have ‘fruit’) is occasionally quoted in the sense of ‘an offering of praise’.extracted from calfn.1golden calf golden calf n. an unworthy or inappropriate object of worship.With allusion to Exodus 32:4, in which Aaron makes a gold idol of a calf for the Israelites to worship, while Moses is on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments. ΚΠ 1575 E. Hake Commemoration Raigne Lady Elizabeth sig. C In these daies..[we] degenerate from the true knowledge of thee..vnto the consuminge nakednesse of idolatrie and playinge inordinat, before ye golden Calfe of our owne making. 1682 Poet's Complaint 3 Those worst of Atheists! who do hold There is no Deity but Gold! They..only th' Golden Calf adore. 1793 J. O'Keeffe World in Village i. i. 1 I'll never bow to the golden calf! People to get money stick at no villany or meanness. 1864 Town Crier Aug. 5/2 You go from your homes to your counting houses,..keeping your souls bound to the mill-stone,..so that from year's end to year's end your golden calf may grow bigger and bigger. 1916 Pacific Reporter 156 1121/1 Judges who feel impelled to sacrifice their sense of reason and justice upon the altar of the Golden Calf of precedent. 2014 D. C. Mann Art of helping Others i. 24 I..liked..the large house..and a healthy paycheck. But in time I discovered I had allowed those things to become a golden calf in my life. < as lemmas |
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