词汇 | milk of human kindness |
词源 | milk of human kindness. Shakespeare invented this expres- sion for gentleness in Macbeth (1606), when he has Lady Mac- beth say to her husband, “Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full of the milk of human kindness . . .” |
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