英语词汇“to serve two masters”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. to serve two masters (also and in earliest use lords): to take orders from or to attempt to satisfy two superiors, employers, etc.; to follow two conflicting or opposing principles or policies at the same time.Frequently in negative constructions, esp. in the proverbial phrase no man can serve two masters (and variants), referring to the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6:24, ‘No man can serue two masters: for either he will hate the one and loue the other, or else hee will holde to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serue God and Mammon.’ (King James Version; cf. the parallel passage in Luke 16:13). [Chiefly after post-classical Latin duobus dominis servire (Vulgate: Matthew 6:24), itself after Hellenistic Greek δυσὶ κυρίοις δουλεύειν (New Testament: Matthew 6:24).]

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c1330 Simonie (Auch.) (1991) l. 44 No man may wel serue tweie lordes to queme.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 57 No man may wel serue two maistres. for that one corumpeth that other.

1564 tr. P. M. Vermigli Most Fruitfull & Learned Comm. f. 265 Neither is it lawfull for any manne to professe hymselfe to be a Christian, whiche will not departe from the superior Magistrae in these thynges, whiche are agaynste the woorde of God. Thys were to haue a wyll to serue two Lordes, and to halte in two partes.

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. ix. §1. 135 Dominion (that is) supreme power is indivisible, insomuch as no man can serve two Masters.

1797 J. Cartwright Appeal Eng. Constit. 51 Those servers of God and Mammon, who pretend to serve two masters in opposite interests.

1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xxiv. 180 To speak truth, I compromised matters; I served two masters.

1908 New-church Messenger (Chicago) 9 Sept. 163/2 It is quite possible..to serve two lords, without hating or despising either of them, but the saying is absolutely and unchangeably true of the effort to serve two masters in spiritual life.

1969 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 24 Oct. 14/2 ‘No one can serve two masters,’ Oakes said, pointing out that..the AEC is both promoter and regulator of nuclear plants.

2005 N.Y. Times 1 Aug. iii. 1/1 Neither [firm] accepts fees from issuers of shares or bonds, which keeps them out of the morass of serving two masters.

单词	to serve two masters
释义	> as lemmas to serve two masters (also and in earliest use lords) P1. to serve two masters (also and in earliest use lords): to take orders from or to attempt to satisfy two superiors, employers, etc.; to follow two conflicting or opposing principles or policies at the same time.Frequently in negative constructions, esp. in the proverbial phrase no man can serve two masters (and variants), referring to the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6:24, ‘No man can serue two masters: for either he will hate the one and loue the other, or else hee will holde to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serue God and Mammon.’ (King James Version; cf. the parallel passage in Luke 16:13). [Chiefly after post-classical Latin duobus dominis servire (Vulgate: Matthew 6:24), itself after Hellenistic Greek δυσὶ κυρίοις δουλεύειν (New Testament: Matthew 6:24).] ΚΠ c1330 Simonie (Auch.) (1991) l. 44 No man may wel serue tweie lordes to queme. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 57 No man may wel serue two maistres. for that one corumpeth that other. 1564 tr. P. M. Vermigli Most Fruitfull & Learned Comm. f. 265 Neither is it lawfull for any manne to professe hymselfe to be a Christian, whiche will not departe from the superior Magistrae in these thynges, whiche are agaynste the woorde of God. Thys were to haue a wyll to serue two Lordes, and to halte in two partes. 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. ix. §1. 135 Dominion (that is) supreme power is indivisible, insomuch as no man can serve two Masters. 1797 J. Cartwright Appeal Eng. Constit. 51 Those servers of God and Mammon, who pretend to serve two masters in opposite interests. 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xxiv. 180 To speak truth, I compromised matters; I served two masters. 1908 New-church Messenger (Chicago) 9 Sept. 163/2 It is quite possible..to serve two lords, without hating or despising either of them, but the saying is absolutely and unchangeably true of the effort to serve two masters in spiritual life. 1969 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 24 Oct. 14/2 ‘No one can serve two masters,’ Oakes said, pointing out that..the AEC is both promoter and regulator of nuclear plants. 2005 N.Y. Times 1 Aug. iii. 1/1 Neither [firm] accepts fees from issuers of shares or bonds, which keeps them out of the morass of serving two masters. extracted from servev.¹ < as lemmas
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