there is nothing new under the sun

短语

日光之下并无新事

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nothing is said that has not been said before nothing new under the sun

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    There is nothing truly novel in existence; every new idea has some sort of precedent or echo from the past.

    日光之下并无新事

词源

Calque of Latin nihil sub sōle novum, itself a calque from the Hebrew אֵין כָּל חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ (en kol chadásh táchat hashámesh, “there is nothing new under the sun”) found in Ecclesiastes 1:9.

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