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词汇 Gadarene
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Definition of Gadarene in English:

Gadarene

adjectiveˈɡadəriːnˈɡadəˌrēn
  • Involving or engaged in a headlong or potentially disastrous rush to do something.

    横冲直撞的;仓促从事的;莽撞的

    do not follow the Gadarene rush
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Although we have seen that we can dismiss a Gadarene school hypothesis, this does not necessarily preclude the development of a local satiric outlook.
    • A significant, perhaps indeed the most significant, factor in the Gadarene rush to war in 1914 was the rigidity that these mobilization imperatives introduced into both diplomatic and military calculations.
    • I imagine that Gadarene parents used the demoniac to scare their children into obedience like we do the boogeyman.
    • As we report today, and as we have consistently argued throughout this Gadarene rush towards war, there has to be a justification for any attack.
    • We are being joined in the Gadarene rush by none other than the Commission on Social Justice.
    • It was a Gadarene rush of highly-educated CEOs and Harvard MBAs.
    • If the Government is to persist in this ill conceived Gadarene stratagem, how about a mission statement to complement it, such as ‘flirt with the feckless and woo the worthless.’
    • For the record, it was the Tories who started this Gadarene stampede, although they at least have the grace to repent of it now.

Origin

Early 19th century: from New Testament Greek Gadarēnos 'inhabitant of Gadara', with reference to the story of the swine that rushed down a steep cliff into the sea (Matt. 8:28–32).

Definition of Gadarene in US English:

Gadarene

adjectiveˈɡadəˌrēn
  • Involving or engaged in a headlong or potentially disastrous rush to do something.

    横冲直撞的;仓促从事的;莽撞的

    do not follow the Gadarene rush
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A significant, perhaps indeed the most significant, factor in the Gadarene rush to war in 1914 was the rigidity that these mobilization imperatives introduced into both diplomatic and military calculations.
    • For the record, it was the Tories who started this Gadarene stampede, although they at least have the grace to repent of it now.
    • Although we have seen that we can dismiss a Gadarene school hypothesis, this does not necessarily preclude the development of a local satiric outlook.
    • We are being joined in the Gadarene rush by none other than the Commission on Social Justice.
    • It was a Gadarene rush of highly-educated CEOs and Harvard MBAs.
    • I imagine that Gadarene parents used the demoniac to scare their children into obedience like we do the boogeyman.
    • If the Government is to persist in this ill conceived Gadarene stratagem, how about a mission statement to complement it, such as ‘flirt with the feckless and woo the worthless.’
    • As we report today, and as we have consistently argued throughout this Gadarene rush towards war, there has to be a justification for any attack.

Origin

Early 19th century: from New Testament Greek Gadarēnos ‘inhabitant of Gadara’, with reference to the story of the swine that rushed down a steep cliff into the sea (Matt. 8:28–32).

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