亚当的肋骨 meaning in English
adam's rib
Examples
- In spite of their unitarian proclivities and their masks of conservative broadmindedness , they were two generations behind interpretative science : their mental processes were mediaeval , while their thinking on the ultimate data of existence and of the universe struck him as the same metaphysical method that was as young as the youngest race , as old as the cave - man , and older - the same that moved the first pleistocene ape - man to fear the dark ; that moved the first hasty hebrew savage to incarnate eve from adam s rib ; that moved descartes to build an idealistic system of the universe out of the projections of his own puny ego ; and that moved the famous british ecclesiastic to denounce evolution in satire so scathing as to win immediate applause and leave his name a notorious scrawl on the page of history
尽管他们倾向于唯一神教，戴了一副具有保守开明思想的面具，实际上他们已落后于解释世界的科学两代之久。他们的思想还处在中世纪阶段。同时，他也感到，他们看待生命和宇宙的终极事实的方法还是形而上学的，那种看法阻地球上最年轻的种族的看法一样幼稚也跟穴居人的看法一样古老，甚至更古老那看法使第一个更新世的猿人害怕黑暗使第一个匆促的希伯来野蛮人用亚当的肋骨造成了夏娃使笛卡尔通过反射渺小的自我建立了唯心主义的宇宙体系使那有名的英格兰传教士用尖刻的讽刺来谴责进化论，并立即博得了喝彩，从而在历史的篇章里草草留下了一个臭名。