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单词 Gadarene
释义

Gadarene

/ˈɡadəriːn /
adjective
Involving or engaged in a headlong or potentially disastrous rush to do something: do not follow the Gadarene rush...
  • It was a Gadarene rush of highly-educated CEOs and Harvard MBAs.
  • As we report today, and as we have consistently argued throughout this Gadarene rush towards war, there has to be a justification for any attack.
  • A significant, perhaps indeed the most significant, factor in the Gadarene rush to war in 1914 was the rigidity that these mobilization imperatives introduced into both diplomatic and military calculations.

Origin

Early 19th century: from New Testament Greek Gadarēnos 'inhabitant of Gadara', with reference to the story of the swine that rushed down a steep cliff into the sea (Matt. 8:28–32).

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