英语词汇fleshpots的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fleshpots
词源	fleshpots. The word is commonly used to mean, metaphor- ically, luxurious living or places offering unrestrained pleasure. In this sense fleshpots goes back to a biblical passage, Exodus 16:3: “And the children of Israel said unto them Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full.”
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