Ten Commandments

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专有名词
  1. A particular list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible or the Hebrew Bible, were twice given or dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and inscribed on two stone tablets.
    — A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by the new year.
  2. The ten fingernails, used by women when fighting. dated,slang
    — She'd drink the gin fust and give him her ten commandments artervards, when she'd aggerawated him to try it on.

词形变化

the Ten Commandments canonical,plural ten commandments alternative

词源

Calque of Biblical Hebrew עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים ('aséret had'varím, “the ten items”), from Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4.
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