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小词详解 | gospel
gospel 英 [ˈɡɒspl] 美 [ˈɡɑːspl]
TOEFL TEM8 GRE
In the boom years of globalisation from 1990, one of the ideas that became gospel, spread by authors such as Thomas Friedman, was that the world had become flat.
在从1990 年开始的全球化的繁荣时代,托马斯·弗里德曼等作家传播的一种思想成了真理:世界变得扁平了。
——《经济学人》An entire cottage industry has sprung up there, selling an internet-centric prosperity gospel that says that there is no higher calling than to start your own company, and that to succeed you must be willing to give up everything.
那里已经出现了一个完全是作坊式的产业,贩卖以互联网为中心的成功学,称没有比创业更崇高的使命,还说要取得成功,必须愿意放弃一切。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 一件绝对正确的事
fact: a thing that is known or proved to be true actuality: actual existence, typically as contrasted with what was intended, expected, or believed verity: a true principle or belief, especially one of fundamental importance