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单词 cast one's bread upon the waters
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cast one's bread upon the waters

Do good without expecting gratitude or reward: if you don’t cast your bread upon the waters, it won’t come back to you when you need it most...
  • And we cast our bread upon the waters and fed the birds - ducks, swans, and fat pigeons on the banks.
  • The apostle had cast his bread upon the waters of Ilissus and Cephisus to find it after many days.
  • Often the best I can do personally is to cast my bread upon the waters and hope that it will feed somebody.
With biblical allusion to Eccles. 11:1
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