查询词典 pottage

To be sure, I was poor, but I would not allow my poverty to gain the upper hand and compel me to barter away my inward convictions of duty for a temporary mess of pottage.

毫无疑问，我是穷，可是，我不会让贫穷左右我，迫使我用心里对于责任的信念来暂时换取一碗汤喝。

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

现在到了我该结束你们在这里席位的时候了，你们以蔑视所有的道德，营私舞弊玷污了这些席位。你们是一小撮结党营私，以政府为敌的乌合之众；你们是群唯利是图的蛆虫，像以扫一样，为了蝇头小利不惜出卖你们的国家；像犹大一样，为了几个铜板不惜背叛你们主。

I think what he got is a mess of pottage when he agreed to withdraw his candidacy in exchange for a peerage.

我想，他答应了退出竞选换取贵族头衔，是因小失大了。

This is where the Idiom Mess of Pottage comes from.

这是"因小失大"这个成语的来源。

B: Do you think I'll depart from my correct stand just for a mess of pottage?

难道你认为我会因为一点点利益就改变我的立场吗？

A nice mess of pottage was served at the beginning.

先上的是份不错的浓汤。

Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint.

便对雅各伯说：「请将这红红的东西给我点吃，因为我实在又饿又乏。

There are many,many people who are willing to prostitute their intelligence for a mess of pottage.

于是，他便按雅各的要求，对天起誓，把长子权卖给雅各，换来饼和红豆汤。

Voters have thrice said no to this mess of pottage.

这已经是第三次选民们对这样的条约说不了。

And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot.

4：40 倒出来给众人吃，吃的时候，都喊叫说，神人哪，锅中有致死的毒物。

We are in a good position to meet your requirements.

我们完全可以满足你方的需求。

We are all pervade d with a sense of disaster.

我们普遍有大祸降临的感觉。