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单词 a rope of sand
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a rope of sand

literary Used in allusion to something providing only illusory security or coherence: our union will become a mere rope of sand...
  • The effort to maintain his dream with such consistency as to make it a reality is enormous, ‘much more arduous than weaving a rope of sand or coining the faceless wind’.
  • China was still, as Sun Yatsen said, ‘a rope of sand’.
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