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The Bible has been the most influential text in all of Western culture. It's difficult to understand medieval or early modern or much of modern literature without knowing it...

Prof. Barbara Newman, Northwestern University
from 2006 Bible Literary project

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It's not that it's impossible to read some writers without a Biblical background, but that you would miss a whole dimension to their work.

Prof. Steven Goldsmith, University of California at Berkeley
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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I can only say that if a student doesn't know any Bible literature, he or she will simply not understand whole elements of Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth

Prof. Robert Kiely, Harvard University
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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...there is truth in the remark. "without Tyndale[Bible translator], no Shakespeare"...

Prof. David Daniell, University College London
from The Bible in English

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You can't really study Western literature intelligently or coherently without starting with the Bible.

Prof. Gerald L. Bruns, University of Notre Dame
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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...a familiar understanding of Christian doctrine in historical perspective thus contributes to a fuller appreciation of Shakespeare's art, but Shakespeare's art

Prof. Roland M. Frye
from Shakespeare and the Christian Doctrine

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In English tradition and also for an American tradition begun by Puritan writers, a knowledge of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament is even more crucial than classical references.

Prof. Ulrich Knoefplmacher, Princeton University
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundametal to the study of English literature and language.

Prof. David Jasper and Prof. Stephen Prickett
from the Bible and literature

Making bricks without straw 巧婦難為無米之炊/燒磚不用稻草(出埃及記 5:7-8)

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聖經經文

意思

“Making bricks without straw”其實就是巧婦難為無米之炊的意思。

來源及應用

雅各一家搬到埃及以后便在那里繁衍后代。埃及的法老王懼怕有一天以色列人的數量會超過埃及人,他便奴役以色列人去做燒磚和耕作之類的苦力。為了讓他們勞動得更困難,他還命令奴隸主不要提供燒磚用的稻草給以色列人。這樣,以色列人燒磚前只能自己去收集稻草,但他們要做的工卻一點也沒有減少。

例句

Driving an underfunded project is like making brick without straw. 推行一個資金不足的專案,情況就像巧婦難為無米之炊。

Keywords

brick    slave    straw   

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