请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 magic pudding
释义

Definition of magic pudding in English:

magic pudding

noun
Australian informal
  • An endlessly renewable resource.

    policy makers continue to see the environment as a magic pudding
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The chattering classes have always thought that public money is some kind of Magic Pudding.
    • Our land seems to be regarded as a magic pudding that will never stop feeding our growing population.
    • Some of the older and hitherto untranslated Indian writers may finally see the light of day and add their own brand of riches to the great magic pudding that is international literature.
    • Government was not a burden that you had to pay for; it was a magic pudding; you could cut slice after slice and there was always more.
    • He has replaced the stamp duty magic pudding with a tax on the profit from the sale of investment properties, and an overhaul of land tax.
    • There is no magic pudding that is going to pay for all of this.
    • Australia is not a Magic Pudding and we need to think deeply about what we want this continent to look like in the future.
    • The magic pudding that bridges the cost gap is referred to as 'risk allocation'.
    • He seemingly didn't explain how it could be any other way, unless he believes in the Magic Pudding theory of fiscal administration.
    • This reality of fiat currency is very difficult for many people to grasp but it's not quite the magic pudding that perhaps it appears to be.

Origin

1980s: from the title of a children's book The Magic Pudding (1918) by Norman Lindsay, in which a pudding instantly renews itself as slices are cut out of it.

随便看

 

英汉双解词典包含464360条英汉词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/11 6:50:24