| 词汇 | judas |
| 词源 | Judas; Judas goat; etc. On Holy Saturday in Corfu the people still throw crockery into the streets, enacting their traditional stoning of Judas Iscariot. Thousands of years have passed, but Christ’s betrayer remains the most infamous traitor of all time, his name recorded in many expressions, including Judas or Ju- das Iscariot, meaning any treacherous person who turns against a friend for some reward, as Judas did for 30 pieces of silver; Ju- das kiss, outward courtesy clothing deceit, alluding to the way Judas identified Jesus to the high priests in the Garden of Geth- semane; Judas tree, any of the several circis species, whose pur- ple flowers suggest dark blood and upon which, tradition says, the traitor hanged himself after his act of betrayal; and Judas goat, the stockyard goat that leads unsuspecting animals to slaughter. |
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