sackcloth and ashes

麻布和灰烬麻布与灰烬麻布和骨灰麻布和泥土

sackcloth and ashes 的定义

  1. Mourning or penitence, as in What I did to Julie's child was terrible, and I've been in sackcloth and ashes ever since. This term refers to the ancient Hebrew custom of indicating humility before God by wearing a coarse cloth, normally used to make sacks, and dusting oneself with ashes. In English it appeared in William Tyndale's 1526 biblical translations, “They [the cities Tyre and Sidon] had repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.”

sackcloth and ashes 近义词

sackcloth and ashes

等同于 penance

更多sackcloth and ashes例句

  1. As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
  2. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  3. Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
  4. Warm milk mixed with a spoonful of fireplace ashes seemed to also be popular among 19th century England.
  5. Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
  6. She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
  7. He thrust the Cardinal's mantle into it, and stood over the smouldering cloth, till the whole was consumed to ashes.
  8. No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
  9. The Seneschal stood with blanched face and gaping mouth, his fire all turned to ashes before the passion of this gaunt man.
  10. Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.