separate the sheep from the goats

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To divide the members of a group into those that are superior and those that are inferior.

词形变化

separates the sheep from the goats present,singular,third-person separating the sheep from the goats participle,present separated the sheep from the goats participle,past separated the sheep from the goats past

词源

From the New Testament discourse of the Sheep and the Goats, particularly Matthew 25:32–33: “And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.”
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