Idol

(noun.) a material effigy that is worshipped; 'thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image'; 'money was his god'.

(noun.) someone who is adored blindly and excessively.

录入:劳伦斯

• It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Among his other advantages, Lord Raymond was supremely handsome; every one admired him; of women he was the idol. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Is sure he is at the head of a lodge, and wears short aprons, and is made a perfect idol of with candlesticks and trowels. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He loves the idol he serves, and prays day and night that his frenzy may be fed, and that the Ox-eyed may smile on her votary. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It has always had its own special idol worship within the Church. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Miserable little propitiators of a remorseless Idol, how abject we were to him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I am glad of this--not for my own sake, but for that of my life and idol--my Shirley. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Thus topples to earth another idol of my infancy. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I was not angry on my own account, but I felt as if the praises which this idol received were leaves torn from laurels destined for Adrian. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Etiquette required that she should wait, immovable as an idol, while the men who wished to converse with her succeeded each other at her side. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Turning as from a fallen idol, she made other discoveries which rapidly dispelled her romantic illusions. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• This idol carries its own criticism with it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Without entering into further explanations, I may repeat that the idol is down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• To avow before what altar I now kneel--to reveal the present idol of my soul---- You will make haste about it, if you please. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Most men ruthlessly destroy the sacred veil, with which the female heart is wont to adorn the idol of its affections. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I saw that in his heart he despised those dedicated to any but worldly idols. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Positively Idols! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It was, I believe, an array of idols disguised as ideals. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They are typical idols of the American people. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For in the last analysis the practical and the reasonable are little idols of clay that thwart our efforts. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Without it there would to-day be no demand for a creative statesmanship which turns its back upon the routine and the taboo, kings and idols, and non-human purposes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For those earnest men and women in Chicago did not set out to find a way of abolishing prostitution; they set out to find a way that would conform to four idols they worshiped. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They are typical American idols, and they deserve some study. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They should not die--first I would be gathered to nothingness, ere infection should come anear these idols of my soul. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Idols are set up to which all the living must bow; we decide beforehand that things must fit a few preconceived ideas. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He parleyed for two years, sending a disciple to preach in Medina and destroy the idols there. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To see it is to see a vision of home itself and all its idols, and feel a thrill that would stir a very river of sluggish blood! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There are some low minds (not many, I am happy to believe, but there are some) that would prefer to do what I should call bow down before idols. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Those four idols really dominated the minds of the Commission, and without them the report cannot be understood. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For with the removal of distracting idols, man's experience becomes the center of thought. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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