blood, sweat and tears

短语

血汗

发音

AU

词形变化

only 复数

别名

blood, sweat, and tears

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person's determination and hard work.

    血汗

    习语 仅复数

    We've poured lots of blood, sweat, and tears into this project.

词源

Popularized through a famous speech made by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons in 1940, with slight modification, but already present in earlier poetry. More information May be an extension of a much older Indo-European poetic formula “blood and tears”; compare e.g. Hittite 𒂊𒌍𒄩𒉌 𒅖𒄩𒄴𒊒𒌑𒄿 (e-eš-ḫa-ni iš-ḫa-aḫ-ru-ú-i, “in blood [and] in tear(s)”). It is common in Indo-European oral traditions to three bodily substances pertaining to a certain theme, such as “flesh, bone and marrow” for the internal solids (cf. Calin (2017), pages 143–146).

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