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单词 unmixed blessing
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Definition of unmixed blessing in English:

unmixed blessing

noun
  • usually with negative A situation having advantages and no disadvantages.

    motherhood is not an unmixed blessing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • From an economic standpoint, patents are not an unmixed blessing.
    • The second problem is Egan's claim that progressive educators regard literacy and rationality as unmixed blessings.
    • Children are not an unmixed blessing, and I would quickly disabuse any starry-eyed romantic who thinks otherwise
    • For example, when Barber discusses the assistance that siblings render to one another in hunter-gatherer societies, he writes, ‘Such help is not always an unmixed blessing because of rivalry between siblings.’
    • While this is generally considered a sign of great progress, it is not an unmixed blessing.
    • The flourishing of such commissions and councils has been valuable in many respects, but it has not been an unmixed blessing.
    • What, however, Walter appears to miss - at any rate she shows no critical hesitation over it - is that belief in human perfectibility is, to put it gently, not an unmixed blessing.
    • Is it really an unmixed blessing of contemporary capitalism that fewer and fewer Americans can count on a lifetime job with health care and a pension?
    • Desperate as the position appeared, neither the Soviet nor even the US entry into the war appeared unmixed blessings for the UK.
    • This should not be taken to mean that celibacy is an unmixed blessing.
 
 

Definition of unmixed blessing in US English:

unmixed blessing

noun
  • usually with negative A situation or thing having advantages and no disadvantages.

    motherhood is not an unmixed blessing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What, however, Walter appears to miss - at any rate she shows no critical hesitation over it - is that belief in human perfectibility is, to put it gently, not an unmixed blessing.
    • Children are not an unmixed blessing, and I would quickly disabuse any starry-eyed romantic who thinks otherwise
    • The second problem is Egan's claim that progressive educators regard literacy and rationality as unmixed blessings.
    • Is it really an unmixed blessing of contemporary capitalism that fewer and fewer Americans can count on a lifetime job with health care and a pension?
    • Desperate as the position appeared, neither the Soviet nor even the US entry into the war appeared unmixed blessings for the UK.
    • While this is generally considered a sign of great progress, it is not an unmixed blessing.
    • The flourishing of such commissions and councils has been valuable in many respects, but it has not been an unmixed blessing.
    • From an economic standpoint, patents are not an unmixed blessing.
    • For example, when Barber discusses the assistance that siblings render to one another in hunter-gatherer societies, he writes, ‘Such help is not always an unmixed blessing because of rivalry between siblings.’
    • This should not be taken to mean that celibacy is an unmixed blessing.
 
 
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