Babel的意思|Babel的解释-里氏词典

Babel ['beibl]

n. 巴别(基督教<<圣经>>中的城市名)

A babel of voices could be heard from the street.
可以听见街上一阵噪囔的声音。
They think Mike's plan is the tower of Babel.
他们认为迈克的计划是空想。
The great symbol of architecture, Babel, is a hive.
被誉为建筑艺术伟大象征的巴比塔，就是一座蜂房。

babel

[ noun ]

(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another

<noun.artifact>

a confusion of voices and other sounds

<noun.act>

Babel \Ba"bel\, n. [Heb. B[=a]bel, the name of the capital of
Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of
``confusion.'']
1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the
confusion of languages took place.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel. --Gen. xi.
9.

2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused
mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.

That babel of strange heathen languages. --Hammond.

The grinding babel of the street. --R. L.
Stevenson.

The melting pot yields to the Tower of Babel.
"There's a real risk of a Tower of Babel out there unless you work very hard to overcome it," says retired Gen.
To their delight, Mr. Treurnicht likens a unitary state to the Tower of Babel, an affront to God's will and doomed to failure.
Legends claim it was spoken by Adam and Eve, and that one of the Adamic-speaking sons of Noah settled in the mountains before the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel.
And as for the critics pretending to review this artistic equivalent of the Tower of Babel, who are they trying to kid? Of course the Summer Exhibition, now in its 224th year, is not everyone's glass of Pimms.
So Mr. Riethmiller ignores what went down at Babel and sells languages by the bushel.
'It was like a Tower of Babel at BT with people having been trained to approach their jobs in many different ways.
Yet it is true that the the present 13-party Babel that inhabits Japan's lower house of parliament is embarking on the final stage of the search for a more orderly balance of power.
They currently either rely on one manufacturer or, more commonly, piece together, from a number of manufacturers, systems that too often resemble a modern-day Tower of Babel.

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