单词 | no man is an island |
释义 | Idioms and Phrases with No man is an islandno man is an island Human beings necessarily depend on one another, as in You can't manage this all by yourself; no man is an island. This expression is a quotation from John Donne's Devotions (1624): “No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.” The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. No man is an islandNo one is self-sufficient; everyone relies on others. This saying comes from a sermon by the seventeenth-century English author John Donne. Words nearby No man is an islandnomad, nomadic, nomadism, nomadize, No man can serve two masters, No man is an island, no man's land, nomarch, nomarchy, no-mark, no-mates The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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