英语词汇“magic pudding”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

magic pudding

noun Australian informal

An endlessly renewable resource: policy makers continue to see the environment as a magic pudding...

Government was not a burden that you had to pay for; it was a magic pudding; you could cut slice after slice and there was always more.
Some of the older and hitherto untranslated Indian writers may finally see the light of day and add their own brand of riches to the great magic pudding that is international literature.
The chattering classes have always thought that public money is some kind of Magic Pudding.

Origin

1980s: from the title of a children's book The Magic Pudding (1918) by Norman Lindsay, in which a pudding instantly renews itself as slices are cut out of it.

单词	magic pudding
释义	magic pudding noun Australian informal An endlessly renewable resource: policy makers continue to see the environment as a magic pudding... Government was not a burden that you had to pay for; it was a magic pudding; you could cut slice after slice and there was always more. Some of the older and hitherto untranslated Indian writers may finally see the light of day and add their own brand of riches to the great magic pudding that is international literature. The chattering classes have always thought that public money is some kind of Magic Pudding. Origin 1980s: from the title of a children's book The Magic Pudding (1918) by Norman Lindsay, in which a pudding instantly renews itself as slices are cut out of it.
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