单词 | silver cord |
释义 | silver cord n. 1. In various systems of spiritual thought, the connection between one's physical body and one's spirit or astral body, conceived of as being spatially extended during out-of-body experiences and as being severed at the moment of death. 2. The emotional bond between a mother and her offspring. [Translation of Hebrew hebel ha-kkesep, cord of silver, an expression of uncertain meaning in Ecclesiastes 12:6-7, possibly referring to the spinal cord as essential to life. Sense 2, after The Silver Cord, a 1926 play by American playwright Sidney Coe Howard (1891-1939) in which an overly possessive mother is depicted as damaging to the emotional lives of her grown sons.] |
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