Uriah Heep
名词 n.
动词 v.
专有名词
英文释义
名词 n.
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Someone like the fictional character Uriah Heep.
— She is the Uriah Heep of society, humbling herself before the Church and the Law, whispering sweetly her vow to honor and obey, hugging her chains as a chattel and a slave.
动词 v.
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To be a yes man, in the style of Uriah Heep.
— But he'd Uriah-Heeped himself into yet another corner from which she refused to extricate him.
专有名词
- A fictional character, Uriah Heep, in the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.
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