| 单词 | road to damascus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad to Damascus P19. road to Damascus: the site of an important or life-changing revelation. An allusion to the conversion of Saul of Tarsus described in Acts 9. Π 1862 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables III. lix. 288 It was certainly strange that..the mechanician of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse, could be unsaddled by a beam of light!..that there should be for a locomotive a road to Damascus! 1880 M. N. Sherwood tr. ‘H. Gréville’ Lucie Rodey i. 26 Will you not believe with me that I have found here my road to Damascus? 1913 W. L. Comfort Road of Living Men ii. vii. 111 That's my road to Damascus—my great light fell there. 1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 251 It was also, as he often afterwards stressed, something of a ‘road to Damascus’ revelation for Norman. 2000 Victorian Mar. 8/2 A relatively recent convert to the glories of the nineteenth century, Valerie's Road to Damascus was, appropriately, the 1997 Victorian Society Summer School. < as lemmas |
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