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单词 Mess of pottage
释义

Mess of pottage

原声例句
泰山之子(下)

What was his " mess of pottage" to the birthright that the other had preserved?

与对方保留的与生俱来的权利相比,他的“一团糟”是什么?

艰难时世(上)

But he who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage existed, and Judas Iscariot existed, and Castlereagh existed, and this man exists! '

但是为了一团浓汤而出卖长子名分的人存在,加略人犹大存在,卡斯尔雷存在,这个人存在!

英语百科

Mess of pottage

Esau Sells His Birthright for Pottage of Lentils, a 1728 engraving by Gerard Hoet.
Esau and the Mess of Pottage, by Jan Victors.

A mess of pottage is something immediately attractive but of little value taken foolishly and carelessly in exchange for something more distant and perhaps less tangible but immensely more valuable. The phrase alludes to Esau's sale of his birthright for a meal of lentil stew ("pottage") in Genesis 25:29–34 and connotes shortsightedness and misplaced priorities.

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