| 单词 |
Jeremiah |
| 释义 |
Jeremiah|dʒɛrɪˈmaɪə|
The name of a Hebrew prophet (see jeremiad), used allusively to denote a person given to lamentation or woeful complaining.
1781Gibbon Decl. & Fall III. 620 The vague and tedious lamentations of the British Jeremiah [sc. Gildas]. 1902Daily Chron. 15 Oct. 3/1 This talk about the rate-payers only came from municipal Jeremiahs. 1905Ibid. 1 Sept. 5/7 The Jeremiahs have been on the rampage; the dismal and the doleful would-be experts [etc.]. 1928Daily Express 23 Feb. 3/5 There are always Jeremiahs who go about saying that we have never had such bad times. 1928Observer 22 July 16/3 The Socialists are..bound to be confirmed Jeremiahs by the necessity of their propaganda. 1963Times 22 Apr. 8/5 Mr. Selwyn Lloyd..wanted to see Young Conservatives ‘rise up in protest against the Jeremiahs, defeatists, pessimists, denigrators’, [etc.]. 1973Listener 15 Nov. 655/1, I am not going to try to play the role of prophet, least of all Jeremiah. |
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