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词组 may you live in interesting
释义 may you live in interesting
times
used as a curse US
Generally jocular. In a speech given in South Africa in 1966, US President John F. Kennedy introduced this allegedly ancient Chinese curse to the world.
  • Once, an old Buddhist monk had come up to him while his platoon was digging and said to him, “May you live in interesting times.” Young Lieutenant Landry had taken it as a blessing of some sort[.] — Nelson Demille, Spencerville, p. 100, 1998
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