Moloch

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈməʊlɒk/    美 /ˈmoʊlɑk/|/ˈmɑlək/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. An ancient Ammonite deity worshiped by the Canaanites, Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant, often depicted with the head of a bull.
  2. A person or thing demanding or requiring a very costly sacrifice. figuratively
    — [W]e can't without wonder remember that horrid Invention projected in this place, but thanks be to God diſappointed, wherein there was not Reverence to the ſacred Bones of Princes, but all were at one blaſt to be offer'd up to Moloch.

词源

From the Proto-Semitic *malk- (“king”). The figurative sense derives from the Old Testament, in which it is alleged that the cult of Moloch involved the sacrifice of human children.
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