Bulrush

(noun.) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America.

巴里整理

• But don't move a step forward, or your life is not worth a bulrush. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• They were powerless as a rotten bulrush to protect me--impotent as idiot babblings to restrain him! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• On the same island is still shown the spot where Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Such was the ark of bulrushes in which Moses was hidden by his mother. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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