Brahmin

(n.) A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos.

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• As in the Indian civilization, the leading class is an intellectual one; less priestly than the Brahmin and more official. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If I was locked up in a fireproof chest vith a patent Brahmin, she'd find means to get at me, Sammy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• To the Brahmin a cow is sacred; to the Moslem the pig is unclean. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Here, on the night when the shrine was completed, Vishnu the Preserver appeared to the three Brahmins in a dream. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• And the Brahmins knelt and hid their faces in their robes. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• And the Brahmins caused the prophecy to be written over the gates of the shrine in letters of gold. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The exceptions occurring among Brahmins or Mahometans or the ancient Persians, are of that sort which may be said to prove the rule. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The Brahmins, who had the monopoly of teaching among the Hindus, had all the conceit and slackness of hereditary privilege. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They were Brahmins (he said) who had forfeited their caste in the service of the god. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The Moslem teachers and the Brahmins were alike alarmed, and the British were blamed for the progress of mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Quite early in its career Buddhism came into conflict with the growing pretensions of the Brahmins. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was no literature except the oral tradition of the Vedas, and that was chiefly monopolized by the Brahmins; there was even less knowledge. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Unless, after long experience, I am utterly mistaken, those men are high-caste Brahmins. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The caste system Yuan Chwang found fully established in spite of Buddha, and the Brahmins were now altogether in the ascendant. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And the Brahmins heard, and bowed before his will. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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