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In the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, Daniel is a Jewish man taken as a prisoner to Babylon under King Nebuchadnezzar. He will not give up his faith. As punishment he is put in a den of lions, but the lions do not kill him; the story says God shuts their mouths. That scene is why English has the phrase in the lion’s den (or Daniel in the lions’ den): a hard place where you are surrounded by people who do not wish you well — a hostile meeting, a classroom of critics, a family dinner after a fight. The name is still a common first name, so a living person called Daniel is not the Bible figure; the story and the idiom are what this sense is about. The tale is told as miracle and courage, and people who do not go to church still use the idiom.
組成From Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל (daniyél), literally ‘God is my judge’. It came through Ancient Greek Δᾱνῑήλ (Dānīḗl) into Middle English as Daniel / Daniell. The name is not built from English pieces.
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Danielname/ˈdænjəl/
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biblicallifestylereligionA book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
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biblicallifestylereligionThe prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.
- Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the denne of Lions: now the king spake and saide vnto Daniel; Thy God, whom thou seruest continually, he will deliuer thee.
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A male given name from Hebrew in regular use since the Middle Ages.
- "His name is Daniel Needham," my mother said. Whew! With what relief - down came my grandmother's hands! Needham was a fine old name, a founding fathers sort of name, a name you could trace back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony - if not exactly Gravesend itself. And Daniel was as Daniel as Daniel Webster, which was as good a name as a Wheelwright could wish for. "But he's called Dan," my mother added, bringing a slight frown to my grandmother's countenance.
- Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices. Daniel found one called the Creole could help him access vast swathes of visual, color-coded data, opening a door back to color that he had previously thought shut.
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A surname.
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A surname.
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A surname.
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A surname.
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A village in central Poland.
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A town in Wasatch County, Utah, United States.
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A census-designated place in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States.
Danielnoun/ˈdænjəl/
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A wise judge, like the biblical Daniel who ingeniously saved a woman from false accusations of adultery.
- A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! / O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!
danielnoun/ˈdænjəl/
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slangThe buttocks.
- He'd pull the chair out from under some dignified dowager and catch her just before she went to fall on her daniel […]
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