| 单词 | tohu-bohu |
| 释义 | ‖ tohu-bohu|ˈtoːhuːˈboːhuː|
Forms: 7 tohu and bohu, tohu-vavohu, -vabohu, 8–9 tohubohu.
[a. Heb. thōhū wa-bhōhū ‘emptiness and desolation’, in Gen. i. 2, rendered in Bible of 1611 ‘without form and void’. So F. thohu et bohu (Rabelais 1548), tohu-bohu (Voltaire 1776).]
That which is empty and formless; chaos; utter confusion.
[1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 219 That Prophecie..that the world should be two thousand yeares Tohu emptie and without Law.] 1619― Microcosm. xxviii. 275 It is..not any figure, but a Chaos, a Tohu and Bohu, a meere confusion. 1643Trapp Comm., Gen. i. 24–5 (1867) I. 8/2 Man's heart is a mere emptiness, a very Tohu vabohu. 1645A. Henderson Serm. bef. Ho. Lords in Life (1846) 105 That such a Tohu vavohu can be the face of the Kingdom of Christ. 1692Ray Disc. i. ii. (1693) 5 The Earth..which was made tohu vabohu, without form and void. 1875Gladstone Glean. (1879) VI. 180 Yet a judge may..be required to dive, at a moment's notice, into the tohu-bohu of inquiries, which have never yet emerged from the stage of chaos. 1883Browning Jochanan Hakkadosh 721 How from this tohu-bohu—hopes which dive, And fears which soar. 1894L. S. Houghton tr. Sabatier's St. Francis iii. 36 That tohu-bohu of mystery and folly. |
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