absit invidia

短语

别名

absit invidia verbo verbo absit invidia

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    Literally, "may envy be lacking (from my words)".

    1656 (N.S.), George Davenport, The Letters of George Davenport, 1651-1677 2011 publication I long as old Eli did (verbo absit invidia) to hear what is become of the ark; but fear I shall not hear what I desire, and my answer shall be with the daughter in law translata est gloria Dei de—. Comment: "Translata est gloria Dei de ..." is a slight paraphrase from 1 Samuel 4:22.

    I have done with the Oxford Bacons : only let me add, that those of Cambridge, father and son, Nicholas and Francis, the one of Bene't, and the other of Trinity-College, do hold (absit invidia ! ) the scales of desert, even against all of their name in all of the world besides.

词源

From Latin. As found, for example, in Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Book IX, Chapter 19, line 15.

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