too good for this world

短语

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Too morally good or pure for the sinful mortal world.

    1733, Lewis Theobald, ed., The Works of Shakespeare: in Seven Volumes, Dedication, page A3. It might be a childish Superstition, perhaps, to imagine her too good for this World, but we feel to our Concern, that what made her revered on Earth, qualified her too early for a Saint in Heaven.

  2. 2.

    Out of this world; of exceptionally high quality; wonderful; marvelous.

    习语

    2016, Alexandra Petri, ComPost • Opinion (satire), The Washington Post. Obama: Merrick Garland is a beautiful cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure