英语词汇uriah heep的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	uriah heep
词源	Uriah Heep. Uriah Heep, the name of the smooth, deceptive law clerk in Dickens’s David Copperfield (1849), has become over the years a synonym for any “sanctimonious hypocrite, full of sharp practices.”
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