| 单词 | to have blood on one's hands |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have blood on one's hands b. Responsibility or guilt for bloodshed. In later use chiefly in to have blood on one's hands. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > [noun] > of bloodshed bloodOE blood-guiltiness1535 blood guilt1550 society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [noun] > guilt of bloodshed bloodOE blood-guiltiness1535 blood guilt1550 OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvii. 25 Sy hys blod [L. sanguis eius] ofer us & ofer ure bearn. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xx. 11 Þour deeþ deyȝen þey boþe, þe blood of hem [L. sanguis eorum] bee opon hem. 1561 F. Coxe Short Treat. Wickednesse Magicall Sci. sig. Bv If a man or woman haue a spirite of diuination or sothsaying in them: they shall dye the death, they shall stone them to deathe, their bloudde shalbe vpon them. 1611 Bible (King James) Josh. ii. 19 His blood shalbe vpon his head, and we will bee guiltlesse. View more context for this quotation 1714 J. H. Thomson in Cloud of Witnesses 84 Then they bad my Blood be on my own head, but I told them they would find it would be on their heads. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. x. ii. 237 Should his blood be on my hands, wretch as he was, never will my heart be quiet more! 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xviii. 105 Enough of blood rests on my head. 1883 Med. Press & Circular 10 Oct. 314/2 The bestowal from time immemorial of titles..on successful soldiers and sailors with blood on their hands. 1915 B. Russell in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 267/1 I would rather part with money than have a man's blood on my conscience. 2001 Y. Martel Life of Pi (2002) lxi. 183 Now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. < as lemmas |
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