milk of human kindness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Compassion shown to other people. idiomatic,uncountable
    — Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be / What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, / Art not without ambition, but without / The illness should attend it.

词源

First used by Shakespeare in Macbeth (see quotations).
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