讀【荒漠甘泉】每天認一英文單字→(02/27)Wrest(扭)

筆者:潘光祚(落伍者)

讀【荒漠甘泉】每天認一英文單字→(02/27)Wrest(扭)

★Wrest(扭):解

vt.(及物動詞 transitive verb)
1. 用力擰,扭奪,搶奪
2. 設法得到(= extract)
3. 費力取得
4. 歪曲…意思[本質],曲解(法律)

n.(名詞 noun)
1. 【事】扭
2. 【古】【物】(調校鋼琴、豎琴等弦樂器的)調音鑰
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Exo 23:2
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

Exo 23:6
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Deu 16:19
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Psa 56:5
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

2Pet 3:16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.