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Mammon |
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Mammon noun /ˈmæmən/ /ˈmæmən/ [uncountable] (formal, disapproving) - a way of talking about money and wealth when it has become the most important thing in somebody’s life and as important as a god玛门(指财富、金钱);财神
- gamblers worshipping at the temple of Mammon在财神庙做礼拜的赌徒
词源late Middle English: via late Latin from New Testament Greek mamōnas (see Matt. 6:24, Luke 16:9–13 in the Bible), from Aramaic māmōn ‘riches’. The word was taken by medieval writers as the name of the devil of covetousness, and revived in this sense by the English poet Milton.
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