balm of Gilead

基本解釋

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines;
埃及的民哪（注：“民”原文作“處女”），可以上基列取乳香去；
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
埃及的民（原文作處女）哪，可以上基列取乳香去。你雖多服良藥，總是徒然，不得治好。
Others, in this age of instability, fell prey to con men, such as Samuel Solomon, who made a fortune selling his cure-all secret recipe “Balm of Gilead”.
另外一些人在這個(gè)不安定的年代中走向了反人類(lèi)的歧途。例如薩繆爾?索羅門(mén)通過(guò)出售他的百寶丹秘方“基烈軟膏”大賺了一筆。

any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin &rarrcompare balm , myrrh