| 单词 | money is the root of all evil |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(the love, covetousness, desire, etc., of) money is the root of all evil a. (the love, covetousness, desire, etc., of) money is the root of all evil [in allusion to 1 Timothy 6:10; compare quot. 1611] . ΚΠ c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 555 Loue to money..is worthi to be forborn..as Poul seith, it is ‘the roote of al yuel’. 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Catech. & Other Pieces (1844) 122 The covetousness of money is the root of all evil. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Tim. vi. 10 The loue of money is the root of all euill. View more context for this quotation 1777 C. Tufts Let. 18 Sept. in L. H. Butterfield et al. Adams Family Corr. (1963) II. 345 We may truly assent to what indeed many have been loth to believe Viz. That Money is the Root of all Evil. 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. xii. 253 ‘But, doctor, you'll take the money.’..‘Quite impossible,’..said the doctor,..valiantly rejecting the root of all evil. 1978 W. L. DeAndrea Killed in Ratings ii. 18 They've got these funny little sayings... Here's one. ‘Money is the root of all evil..but that's one evil I'm rooting for.’ < as lemmas |
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