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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

Apple of one’s eye 心肝宝贝/掌上明珠(申命记32:10)

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圣经经文

“In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye…” (Deuteronomy 32:10) “耶和华遇见他在狂野荒凉野兽吼叫之地,就环绕他,看顾他,保护他,如同保护眼中的瞳人。”(申命记32:10)

意思

意旨掌上明珠。

来源及应用

在古代,人们一直以为眼瞳是个实心的球体,如苹果一般。“apple”指的是瞳孔,即眼睛里最敏感最珍贵的部分。因此,“apple of his eye”译为“眼中的瞳人”,亦为“心肝宝贝”。 这个短语在《旧约》中共出现了五次。 人们普遍认为“apple of his eye”这个说法是在《圣经》里首次出现的。但历史学家认为,它是在公元9世纪艾尔弗雷德国王把拉丁文译为古英语时出现的,从此开始广泛流传。

例句

Alice, a very capable student, is the apple of her teacher’s eye. 爱丽丝品学兼优,是老师的掌上明珠。

Keywords

apple    favourite    precious    pupil   

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