broken reed
基本解释
- 不可靠的人
- 壓傷的蘆葦
英汉例句
- He let me down at the last minute and turned out to be a broken reed.
不過我們仍然有自己的限度,超過這個界限,就是虛偽與 背信棄義 。 - I asked him to speak at the meeting,but he did not even attend;what a broken reed !
我讓他在會上發言,他居然沒來蓡加。真是個無可信賴的人。 - Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
看哪,你所倚靠的埃及,是那壓傷的葦仗,人若靠這仗,就必刺透他的手。 埃及王法老曏一切倚靠他的人,也是這樣。