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●a voice (crying) in the ˈwildernessa warning of a danger given by a person or small group which most people do not pay any attention to 旷野里的呼唤;无人理睬的警告◆A few scientists in the early 1980s were warning of the dangers of AIDS but nobody took them seriously. They were just a voice in the wilderness. 几位科学家在20世纪80年代早期就曾警告过艾滋病的危险性,但当时人们都不以为然。这些警告就像是旷野里的呼唤,无人理会。 ORIGIN This comes from a description of John the Baptist in the Bible. 这个习语源于《圣经》中对施洗者圣约翰的描述。 |