バベルの塔とう

noun

Tower of Babel

Refers to the biblical story of a tower built to reach heaven, resulting in the confusion of languages. Used in both religious and metaphorical contexts about ambitious but doomed projects.

• 旧きゅう約やく聖せい書しょにはバベルの塔とうの話はなしが出でてくる。

  The story of the Tower of Babel appears in the Old Testament.

• その計けい画かくはまるでバベルの塔とうのように、