英语词汇conscience makes cowards of us all的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	conscience makes cowards of us all
词源	conscience makes cowards of us all. The proverb was proba- bly invented by Shakespeare in Hamlet (1601): “Thus con- science does make cowards of us all.” However, the Indian scholar Bidpai (or Pilpay) wrote c. 326 b.c.: “Guilty consciences always make people cowards.” Shakespeare may have known Bidpai’s work, which was translated into English in 1570.
随便看	when it hits the fan when my ship comes in when one door shuts another opens when the cat-s away the mice will play when the cocqcigrues come when the going gets tough the tough get going when the rubber hits the road when the shit hits the fan when the world grows honest when two people ride a horse one must ride behind when you call me that smile when you seek revenge dig two graves—one for your enemy one for yourself where have all the flowers gone where-s the beef where-s the fire where-s the rest of me where the hoot owl hollers at noon where there-s smoke there-s fire wherewithal whig whip city whip of god whippet whipping boy whirlybird

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