英语词汇“whose ox is gored”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. Chiefly U.S. [Apparently in allusion to a response given by Martin Luther (1483–1546) at the Diet of Worms (1521).] In collocation with gored. An interest that is threatened or harmed. Chiefly in whose ox is gored.

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1843 Brooklyn Eagle & Kings County Democrat 7 Aug. 2/2 If the Democrats, under like circumstances, had made such a declaration, the welkin would have rung and rung again with anathemas against repudiation. But it makes a difference whose ox is gored.

1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 593 This is a doctrine which if allowed, will be adopted very much on the principle of whose ‘ox is gored’.

1901 F. Norris Octopus ii. iv. 442 It makes a difference whose ox is gored, it seems.

1973 V. C. Ike Potter's Wheel (1974) ix. 68 He was widely known as a dare-devil who carried out his intentions without caring whose ox was gored.

1994 H. Bloom Western Canon i. i. 15 Every teaching institution will have its department of cultural studies, an ox not to be gored.

单词	whose ox is gored
释义	> as lemmas whose ox is gored c. Chiefly U.S. [Apparently in allusion to a response given by Martin Luther (1483–1546) at the Diet of Worms (1521).] In collocation with gored. An interest that is threatened or harmed. Chiefly in whose ox is gored. ΚΠ 1843 Brooklyn Eagle & Kings County Democrat 7 Aug. 2/2 If the Democrats, under like circumstances, had made such a declaration, the welkin would have rung and rung again with anathemas against repudiation. But it makes a difference whose ox is gored. 1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 593 This is a doctrine which if allowed, will be adopted very much on the principle of whose ‘ox is gored’. 1901 F. Norris Octopus ii. iv. 442 It makes a difference whose ox is gored, it seems. 1973 V. C. Ike Potter's Wheel (1974) ix. 68 He was widely known as a dare-devil who carried out his intentions without caring whose ox was gored. 1994 H. Bloom Western Canon i. i. 15 Every teaching institution will have its department of cultural studies, an ox not to be gored. extracted from oxn. < as lemmas
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