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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 巧妇难为无米之炊/烧砖不用稻草(出埃及记 5:7-8)

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圣经经文

意思

“Making bricks without straw”其实就是巧妇难为无米之炊的意思。

来源及应用

雅各一家搬到埃及以后便在那里繁衍后代。埃及的法老王惧怕有一天以色列人的数量会超过埃及人,他便奴役以色列人去做烧砖和耕作之类的苦力。为了让他们劳动得更困难,他还命令奴隶主不要提供烧砖用的稻草给以色列人。这样,以色列人烧砖前只能自己去收集稻草,但他们要做的工却一点也没有减少。

例句

Driving an underfunded project is like making brick without straw. 推行一个资金不足的项目,情况就像巧妇难为无米之炊。

Keywords

brick    slave    straw   

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