| 单词 | apple of discord |
| 释义 | apple of discord (once / 46717 pages) n WORD FAMILY apple of discord: apples of discord USAGE EXAMPLESThe apple of discord, the arrows of Philoctetes, the invulnerability of Achilles, and similar fancies, are the additions of later poets. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2012) It put an apple of discord in the Democratic party which hopelessly divided it at Charleston, thus making Republican success in 1860 morally certain. Herndon, William H., Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2)—Th...(2012) The apple of discord has been the theory of knowledge. Various, International Congress of Arts and...(2011) n (classical mythology) a golden apple thrown into a banquet of the gods by Eris (goddess of discord--who had not been invited); the apple had `for the fairest' written on it and Hera and Athena and Aphrodite all claimed it; when Paris (prince of Troy) awarded it to Aphrodite it began a chain of events that led to the Trojan War Hyper prize, trophy something given as a token of victory |
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