the good die young

短语

好人不长命

别名

only the good die young

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    Well-regarded people who are morally upright, kind, and beneficent tend to die at a younger age than do most people.

    好人不长命

词源

Variant of the Latin Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur ("whom the gods love dies young"), from Plautus's Bacchides, apparently adapted from a line in Dis Exapaton (The Double Deceiver) by Menander.

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