embarrassment of riches

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An abundance or overabundance of something; too much of a good thing. idiomatic
    — Roger was in the library, trying to choose, from an embarrassment of riches, the ten of his father's books which he was to be permitted to take to the city.

词形变化

embarrassments of riches plural

词源

Calque of French embarras des richesses, from John Ozell's 1738 translation of a French play, L'Embarras des richesses (1726) by Léonor Jean Christine Soulas d'Allainval.
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