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词汇 manna
释义 manna
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈmæn.ə/ us /ˈmæn.ə/
(in the Bible) a food that dropped from heaven and prevented Moses and his people from dying of hunger in the desert吗哪(《圣经》故事中摩西及其子民在沙漠中得到的神赐食物)
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Idiom


manna from heaven

Examples of manna


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The ordinary things of life cannot fall like manna from the skies.
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I am glad that he is looking for something to come down to him like some kind of manna from heaven.
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I feel sure that these things do not fall like manna.
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To some extent, at least, they were taken over by activists, to whom their outworn shibboleths were as manna from heaven, just ripe for picking.
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As we know, in court, definitions are manna for lawyers.
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Again, before we ask ourselves whether this is manna from heaven, we have to set it against the financial disadvantages which the industry has been facing, and which are considerable.
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According to your logic, it would have been a bad thing for the manna to have come down, because it would have caused unemployment among the nations.
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The problem at the end of this agonising period is that a weakened industry will be faced by an economy that is to receive an injection of fiscal manna.
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To him this was manna from heaven.
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They would not just be handling funds that had been dropped like manna from on high, which is what the regional arts associations are more concerned with.
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When it was first built in the late 1920s, it was regarded as manna from heaven by the unemployed and by the impoverished farms in the region.
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The documents did not magically appear in the prosecutor's office like manna from heaven.
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Dewfall and the phenomenon of manna in the desert would have been known but revered as ineffable.
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Although desiring peaceful interaction and offering immortality and boundless manna, they are prepared for hostile action.
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Give unto us this day the daily manna without which he who labors most to move ahead through this harsh wilderness falls back.
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