| 词汇 | tobit-s fish |
| 词源 | Tobit’s fish. The principal character in the Book of Tobit, in- cluded in the Old Testament Apocrypha, was blinded by the dung of sparrows while he slept in a courtyard. The angel Rap- hael bid Tobit’s son to catch a huge fish in the Tigris and apply its gall to Tobit’s eyes, thus curing him of his blindness. |
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