英语词汇“how many angels can dance on the head of a pin”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P3. how many angels can dance on the head of a pin (also needle) and variants: used as the type of an esoteric topic of debate on which time is wasted and which is of no practical value. Frequently (esp. in early use) regarded depreciatively as a characteristic speculation of Scholastic philosophy. [Compare Middle High German (in late sources) tusent selen siczen jn dem himelreich uff einer nadel spiez ‘in heaven a thousand souls sit on the point of a needle’.]

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1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants Pref. to Author of Charity Maintained sig. §§§2^v As if forsooth, because they dispute not eternally,..Whether a Million of Angels may not sit upon a needles point?..therefore they have no deepe knowledge in the Acroamaticall part of learning!

1727 W. Harris Great & Wonderful Wks. God iii. 61 The subtile Schoolmen, when they maintain that a 1000 Angels can dance upon the point of a needle, which some say is a very needless Point.

1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water xxxiv. 268 He..was tempted to exchange his system for one more spiritual, such as that which speculates upon how many angels can dance upon a pin's point.

2009 New Yorker 25 May 50/2 These kinds of distinctions among the conservatives are just angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin stuff.

单词	how many angels can dance on the head of a pin
释义	> as lemmas how many angels can dance on the head of a pin (also needle) P3. how many angels can dance on the head of a pin (also needle) and variants: used as the type of an esoteric topic of debate on which time is wasted and which is of no practical value. Frequently (esp. in early use) regarded depreciatively as a characteristic speculation of Scholastic philosophy. [Compare Middle High German (in late sources) tusent selen siczen jn dem himelreich uff einer nadel spiez ‘in heaven a thousand souls sit on the point of a needle’.] ΚΠ 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants Pref. to Author of Charity Maintained sig. §§§2^v As if forsooth, because they dispute not eternally,..Whether a Million of Angels may not sit upon a needles point?..therefore they have no deepe knowledge in the Acroamaticall part of learning! 1727 W. Harris Great & Wonderful Wks. God iii. 61 The subtile Schoolmen, when they maintain that a 1000 Angels can dance upon the point of a needle, which some say is a very needless Point. 1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water xxxiv. 268 He..was tempted to exchange his system for one more spiritual, such as that which speculates upon how many angels can dance upon a pin's point. 2009 New Yorker 25 May 50/2 These kinds of distinctions among the conservatives are just angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin stuff. extracted from angeln. < as lemmas
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