| 单词 | 古典文学 |
| 释义 | 〔classic〕A literary work of ancient Greece or Rome.古典文学：古希腊或古罗马的文学作品〔constellation〕An arbitrary formation of stars perceived as a figure or design, especially one of 88 recognized groups named after characters from classical mythology and various common animals and objects.星座：一个看上去象图形或图案的任意恒星群系，尤指88个已被确认并以古典文学艺术中的神话人物及各种普通的动物和物体命名的群体中的一个〔Sanskrit〕An ancient Indic language that is the language of Hinduism and the Vedas and is the classical literary language of India.梵文：一种古印度语，为印度及吠陀经所用文字，也是印度的古典文学语言〔Arnold〕British poet and critic whose poems, such as "Dover Beach" (1867), express moral and religious doubts. His classic studyCulture and Anarchy (1869) is a polemic against Victorian materialism. 阿诺德，马修：(1822-1888) 英国诗人和评论家，其诗歌，如“多佛海滩”（1867年），表达了道德和宗教的怀疑。他的古典文学作品《文化与无政府状态》 （1869年）一书是反对维多利亚物质主义的激烈争辩 〔humanity〕The languages and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome; the classics.古典文学：古希腊、古罗马的语言和文学；古典文学〔classical〕Versed in the classics:精通于古典文学的：〔gorilla〕Two traditions of exploration come together in the history of the wordgorilla, which also illustrates how knowledge of the classics has influenced scientific terminology.Dr. Thomas S. Savage, an American missionary to western Africa,first described the gorilla in 1847, giving it the New Latin nameTroglodytes gorilla. In doing so he was using his knowledge of Greek literature,in which there exists a fourth-centuryb.c. translation of a report written by Hanno, another visitor to western Africa. This Carthaginian navigator,who voyaged before 480b.c. , went as far as Sierra Leone in his explorations.In the Greek translation of his reporthe tells of seeingGorillai, the name of which he allegedly learned from local informantsand which he thought were members of a tribe of hairy women.In fact they were probably the same creatures that Thomas Savage described about 24 centuries later.在涉及到gorilla 这个词的历史时，传说中的两次探险可以联系在一起， 这同样也证明了古典文学对科学术语命名的影响。汤姆斯·S·萨维奇医生，到西非传教的美国传教士，在1847年第一次描述了大猩猩并给它起了个新拉丁语名字Troglodytes gorilla 。 在命名时他就用了希腊文学知识，这个命名也同样出现在一本公元前 4世纪安诺写的见闻译本里，安诺也到过西非。 这位迦太基航海家，公元前 480年之前开始出航， 在他的探险过程中，最远到达过塞拉利昂。在他写见闻的希腊译本里，他说他见到了Gorillai ， 据他自己声称他是从当地向导那儿学到这个名字的，并认为它是指多毛女人部落的成员。实际上他们可能是大约24世纪以后汤姆斯·萨奇所描述的同样的动物〔Kent〕American artist noted for his stark woodcuts, which illustrated published accounts of his travels and special editions of classic literary works.肯特，罗克韦尔：(1882-1971) 美国画家，以其质朴的木版画著名，他的木版画显示了已出版的有关他的旅行的描绘，有的还是展示古典文学作品的特殊版本〔Colet〕English scholar and theologian who founded Saint Paul's School in London (1509) to promote classical as well as scriptural learning.柯列特，约翰：(1467?-1519) 英国学者和神学家，1509年在伦敦创立了圣保罗学校，提倡对古典文学和基督教《圣经》的研究学习 |
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