cross the rubicon [ (rooh-bi-kon) ]

跨越红线跨越红宝石跨越卢布跨越红宝石的界限

cross the rubicon 的定义

  1. To make an irrevocable decision; it comes from the name of the river Julius Caesar crossed with his army, thereby starting a civil war in Rome.

cross the rubicon 近义词

v. 动词 verb

take a decisive step

更多cross the rubicon例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  3. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  4. The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.
  5. If they were meaningful, we might have realized it before—surely one of these kids wore a cross, or a yarmulke, or a hijab?
  6. In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
  7. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  8. I cannot believe that God would think it necessary to come on earth as a man, and die on the Cross.
  9. You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
  10. At Jaques Cartier they had but one batteau to cross the army over with, and were fired upon during the whole time by two frigates.