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apple of discord

不和谐的苹果,不和的苹果,不和之苹,不合的苹果

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Classical Mythology.

    • : a golden apple inscribed “For the fairest,” thrown by Eris, goddess of discord, among the gods. Its award by Paris to Aphrodite caused events that led to the Trojan War.

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  • Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”

  • Apple customers, on the other hand, are used to paying premium for perceived quality.

  • The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.

  • The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.

  • Companies like Delta, Apple, and Nike flex their political muscle on behalf of gay rights.

  • This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.

  • Twenty acres of apple trees all in a orchard together, and twenty acres of strawberries set out betwixt and between the rows!

  • All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.

  • The observer might well remain perplexed at the pathetic discord between human work and human wants.

  • And it did not take Squinty long to learn to jump the rope when there was no apple on the other side.