核心畫面

Picture the one book a whole community treats as final: when a question comes up, someone reaches for it, opens it, and reads out the answer, and that settles the matter. For Christians that book is the Bible, and the word starts there. What travels out of it is not the religion but the role the book plays: complete, trusted, the place you go to check.

可以想成一整個群體公認「翻它就對了」的那一本書:有疑問的時候,有人把它拿出來、翻開、唸出答案,事情就定了。對基督徒來更多收起可以想成一整個群體公認「翻它就對了」的那一本書:有疑問的時候,有人把它拿出來、翻開、唸出答案,事情就定了。對基督徒來說那本書是聖經,這個字也從這裡開始。後來被帶走的並不是宗教,而是這本書扮演的角色——內容齊全、大家信得過、有問題就去翻它。

From the picture

某個領域的寶典

借的是那本書的角色,不是它的宗教內容:某個領域裡最齊全、最權威、大家有問題就去翻的那一本。

authoritative guide · noun · B1

The book that people treat as the most complete and trusted guide to a subject.

寶典 / 權威書

Also in this word

the Bible (holy book) · noun · B1

The Old Testament and New Testament together, which Christians treat as their holy book.

聖經

a copy of the Bible · noun · B1

A single printed copy of the Christian holy book.

聖經(一本)

原始詞典資料17 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Biblename詞源 1/ˈbaɪbəl/

  • 1

    Either of two major versions of the main religious text in the Judeo-Christian group of traditions.

    • Meronyms: Old Testament, New Testament
    • In my religion class we learn about the Bible, as well as religious texts of other religions.
  • 2

    Either of two major versions of the main religious text in the Judeo-Christian group of traditions.

    • Near-synonym: Old Testament (loosely synonymous)
    • She's Jewish, but she doesn't read the Bible because she's not religious.
  • 3

    The analogous holy book of another religion or belief system.

    • He conveys to his foreign students the importance of the Qur'an by explaining that it is the Bible of Islam.
    • The cult's ideological substance was the popular digest dubbed by foreigners the Little Red Book or the Bible of Maoism.
  • 4

    The principal important document of some area of skill or expertise.

    • This technical handbook is the Bible of our trade.

Biblenoun詞源 1/ˈbaɪbəl/

  • 1

    A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts.

    • He had just become able to read, with much effort, short sentences in his Bible, and was constantly engaged during his leisure hours in studying its pages.
    • An American imprisoned for nearly six months in North Korea has admitted that he deliberately left a Bible in a nightclub, in one of his first major interviews since his release.[…]“I felt once I left the Bible somewhere that God would take it the rest of the way into the hands of some kind of Christian organisation, and I’d be able to waltz out of country fat, dumb and happy, no problem... But God had other plans.”

Biblename詞源 2/ˈbaɪbəl/

  • 1

    A surname originating as a matronymic.

biblenoun/ˈbaɪbəl/

  • 1

    A comprehensive manual that describes something, or a publication with a loyal readership; a foundational text.

    • handyman’s bible
    • K&R is considered the bible of C programming
  • 2

    lawA binder containing copies of the most important documents for a particular matter.

    • Could you please add these to the case bible?
  • 3

    nauticaltransportSynonym of holystone: a piece of sandstone used for scouring wooden decks on ships.

  • 4

    A compilation of problems and solutions from previous years of a given course, used by some students to cheat on tests or assignments.

    • My friend’s a genius, he will give me problems one through nine. The bible of a sophomore will have the needed lines.
  • 5

    Omasum, the third compartment of the stomach of ruminants

  • 6

    The upper part of a pin-tumbler lock, containing the driver pins and springs.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。