[每日] gadarene (a) 魯莽的
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The Word of the Day for February 16, 2009 is:
gadarene \GAD-uh-reen\ adjective
Pronunciation: http://ppt.cc/N5G6
: headlong, precipitate
Example Sentence:
Ross has criticized his company for joining the gadarene rush
into the global market.
Did you know?
Gadara, in Biblical times, was a steep hill town just southeast
of the Sea of Galilee. In the account given in the book of Matthew
(8:28), Jesus, on a visit there, exorcised the demons from two
possessed people and sent the demons into some nearby swine. The
possessed swine ran in a mad dash down a steep bank into the Sea
and drowned. "Gadarene," an adjective used to describe a headlong
rush (and often capitalized in recognition of its origin), made
its first known plunge into our lexicon in the 1920s. The swine
sometimes make an appearance as well, as when an imprudently hasty
act is compared to "the rush of the Gadarene swine."
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