One of the earliest known uses was during the 12thcentury, when Walter Map wrote the phrase, “left no good deed unpunished, no bad one unrewarded,” in his work “De nugis curialium.” It wasn’t a common belief in history since moral philosophers and religious people believed the opposi...
No good deed goes unpunished.은 무슨 뜻인가요? NoxianRites 8 2월 2023 답변 영어(미국) Oh it's nothing to do with karma, the phrase is very pessimistic. For example, if you help someone by letting them sleep on your couch, they may end up taking advantage of...
"I'm not selfish," Anderson weakly mumbled in reply. "I'm a generous man…" "That's the beauty of it," Phineas sneered. "It’s still selfishness. You do these horrible things to people, then you go out on the town doing good deeds as you find them as a way to balance the ka...
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No BAD deed goes unpunished. 你想,good deed 为什么要被 punish 呢?维ji百科这样解释:The phrase No good deed ever goes unpunished is usually used as a sarcastic announcement that the good deed you have done will be followed by bad results for yourself. In other words, life is not fair and...
I use the phrase ‘friendly sex’ because the term ‘casual sex‘ is cliché, and leads to confusion. I suggest a lovers friendship in consenting pleasure is better when we include higher qualities in the affection. These qualities are not a function of time, they can happen quickly, slowly...
This phrase describes the moral decay that results from denying God. "Corrupt" and "vile" indicate a deep-seated moral failure and perversion of what is good. This echoes the condition of humanity described in Genesis 6:5, where every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only...
Even the very phrase "jobseeker's allowance" is about redefining the unemployed as a "jobseeker" who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions. 2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ Even when you win, you end up no better...
2 In the first sentence of Section 2 (p. 646), Lacan played on a famous phrase by Goethe from the very end of the second part of Faust, in which the Chorus Mysticus proclaims: ‘das EwigWeibliche/Zieht uns hinan’—‘The eternal feminine draws us on high’ or, in Stuart Atkins’ tr...
You knowis a question tag or aplaceholder(a phrase used by a person who's trying to remember something). "One cool fall day, in his snazzy, impractical convertible, when she asked him what was wrong he said, 'You would not be ill served by new clothes,you know.'" ...