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词汇 widow's cruse
释义

Definition of widow's cruse in English:

widow's cruse

noun
  • An apparently small supply that proves inexhaustible.

    寡妇之坛,用不尽的储藏

    information is infinitely reproducible without diminishing it: it is a veritable widow's cruse
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Susan's courtyard, the little well is a widow's cruse, which never dries, even in the severe season of drought.
    • A widow's cruse was a jar of oil which was never allowed to run out, signifying that the community would support the bereaved person for as long as was needed.
    • And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant.
    • We don't know how God kept the widow's cruse supplied with oil, and why she never ran out of flour during that long dry spell.
    • It often seemed to Connie that her sons thought of the refrigerator as a widow's cruse of food that would magically restock itself every week.

Origin

With biblical allusion to 1 Kings 17:10–16.

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