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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

Drop in the bucket桶里的一滴水(以赛亚 40:15)

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圣经经文

“Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.”(KJV)

意思

水桶的一滴,就如杯水车薪,形容事情微不足道。

来源及应用

以赛亚是以色列南部的犹太先知,当时国王是希西家。希西家王的宫殿里装满了金银珠宝,香料,贵重的膏油,武器,等等其他的一切财富。以赛亚预言说他宫殿里的一切财富将会被捋到巴比伦,王位要拱手让给巴比伦王。在万能的上帝看来,他现在所拥有的只是像水桶里的一滴,上帝才是无所不知包罗万象的。

例句

The scholarship is so small it is like a drop in the bucket in comparison to his tuition fees. 奖学金的金额就如水桶里的一滴水,不足以交付学费。

Keywords

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