| 单词 | for whom the bell tolls |
| 释义 | For Whom the Bell Tollsnouna novel (1940) by Ernest Hemingway. Words nearby For Whom the Bell Tollsforwards, forward slash, forward-thinking, forwent, for what it's worth, For Whom the Bell Tolls, forwhy, forworn, forza, forzando, FOS Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Cultural definitions for For Whom the Bell Tollsfor whom the bell tolls An expression from a sermon by John Donne. Donne says that because we are all part of mankind, any person's death is a loss to all of us: “Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” The line also suggests that we all will die: the bell will toll for each one of us. (See No man is an island.) notes for for whom the bell tollsThe twentieth-century American author Ernest Hemingway named a novel For Whom the Bell Tolls; the book is set during the Spanish Civil War. 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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