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Idiom 1．a doubting Thomas John 20.24 多疑的人 2．a drop in the bucket Isaiah 15.40 eg: Emerson, a post with copious afflatus, claimed himself to be a drop in the bucket in the boundless universe. a land of the covenant 乐土 ( a never-never land; the east of Eden ) A little fire kindles the forest. a man of sorrows 饱经沧桑 a millstone about one’s neck 难以承受的负担 eg: During the time of economic recessing, taxes became a millstone about their necks of many negative savers. 3．a stranger in a strange land 漂泊异乡的游子 Exodus 2.22 eg: John is stricken in years as a solitary stranger in a strange land.