| 单词 | 希腊神话 |
| 释义 | 〔Hyperborean〕One of a people known to the ancient Greeks from the earliest times, living in a perpetually warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind.（希腊神话）北方净土之民：最远古之时为古希腊人所知的一个民族，在北风带以北的永久温暖，有阳光的土地上〔Himalia〕Greek [name of a nymph who bore three sons of Zeus] 希腊语 [希腊神话中半人半神的仙女，曾为宙斯产下三子] 〔semidivine〕Not fully divine but more than mortal, as a demigod in Greek mythology.半神的：不完全是神但高于人类的，如希腊神话中的半人半神〔Zeus〕The principal god of the Greek pantheon, ruler of the heavens, and father of other gods and mortal heroes.宙斯：希腊神话中的主神，天堂的统治者，其他神和人间英雄的父亲〔Euphrosyne〕One of the three Graces.尤弗罗西尼：希腊神话中优雅三女神之一〔echo〕One might think that our wordecho is from the name of the nymph Echo, whom Greek mythology associates with echoes.According to one version of her story,she was torn to pieces by shepherds driven to this act by the god Pan, who was hopelessly in love with her.Pieces of Echo hidden in the ground still respond to Pan's frenzied cries,producing the phenomena known as echoes.A second version of her tale has it that Echo, as a penalty for distracting Hera from observing Zeus's infidelities, lost all power of speech,except the ability to reply.This defect lost her the love of Narcissus,which caused Echo to pine away until only her voice was left.The hapless nymph, however, cannot even claim credit for echoesbecause the Greek wordēkhō, the source of Englishecho, existed with our common noun sense before any mention of Echo is found.Our wordecho is first recorded in Middle English in a work composed in 1340. 您可能想到echo 这个词来自仙女埃科的名字， 她在希腊神话中与回声有关。关于她的故事，有一种说法认为，神潘爱她无望，便指使牧羊狗将她撕成碎片。她的碎片藏在地下时仍在回答潘的疯狂叫喊，于是产生了回声。另一种说法是，埃科使得赫拉察觉不到宙斯的不忠，作为惩罚被剥夺了说话的能力，只能重复别人的话。这个缺陷使她失去了纳西色斯的爱情，于是埃科不断憔悴消损，最后只留下她的声音。可惜的是这位不幸的女神并不能因为制造了回声这个词而居功，因为希腊语ekho ， 即英语中echo 的来源， 早在任何关于埃科的故事之前就存在了。我们现在的词echo 最早是在1340年出现于中世纪英文作品中 〔Hypnos〕The god of sleep.（希腊神话）睡眠之神〔Cronus〕A Titan who ruled the universe until dethroned by his son Zeus.克罗诺斯：希腊神话中的一个提坦，在被他的儿子宙斯废黜之前一直统治着宇宙〔uranium〕The element uranium, whose discovery has been so vital to our nuclear age, owes its name to a preceding scientific discovery, that of the planet Uranus.Sir William Herschel, who discovered Uranus in 1781, named the planetGeorgium sidus, "the Georgian planet,” in honor of George III.Some also called itHerschel, but convention prevailed and the planet came to be calledUranus (the form in Modern Latin and English),the name of a heavenly deity like the rest of the planets.Called Uranus in Latin mythology and Ouranos in Greek,this god of the heavens was chosen because he was the father of Saturn (Greek Cronos), the deity of the planet next in line,who was the father of Jupiter (Greek Zeus), the deity of the next planet.The name of this new planet was then used in the name of a new chemical element,uranium, discovered eight years later by M.H. Klaproth. Klaproth, a German scientist, gave it the Latin nameuranium in honor of the discovery of Uranus. Uranium passed into English shortly thereafter, being first recorded in the third edition of theEncyclopedia Britannica, published in 1797. 元素铀的发现对现今的核子时代是至关重要的。它的名称是据在它之前发现的天王星命名的。威廉·赫歇尔爵士于1781年发现了天王星，并起名为Georgium sidus， “乔治的行星”， 用来纪念乔治三世。有人称之为赫歇尔， 但传统的力量更巨大，最终这颗行星被称之为Uranus （现代拉丁文和英语形式），如用其余的行星一样是用天神的名字命名的。在拉丁神话中被称作优拉纳斯神，而在希腊神话中被作优拉诺斯神，之所以选中这个天神因为他是萨图恩（希腊神话中为克洛诺斯）的父亲，而萨图恩是和他临近的行星；他还是朱庇特（希腊神话中的宙斯）的父亲，而宙斯又是下一颗临近的行星。这颗新行星的名字又用来命名一种新发现的化学元素，铀 是由M.H.克拉普罗特八年后发现的。 克拉普罗特这位德国科学家给予它铀 这种拉丁字母是为了纪念 天王星的发现。 Uranium在这之后不久进入英语， 首次出现于1797年出版的大不列颠百科全书 的第三版中 〔Eumenides〕The Furies.欧墨尼得斯：希腊神话中复仇女神三姐妹〔Creon〕The brother of Iocasta and uncle of Antigone who became the king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus.克瑞翁：希腊神话中伊俄卡斯特的兄弟，安提戈涅的舅父，在俄狄浦斯死后成为底比斯王〔Giraudoux〕French writer primarily known for his dramas, such asElectra (1937), that are based on Greek mythology or biblical stories. He also wrote several novels. 吉兰多恩克斯，（希波吕特）让：(1882-1944) 法国作家，主要以其戏剧闻名，如《厄勒克特拉》 （1937年），根据希腊神话或是圣经故事而作。他也写有几本小说 〔Procrustean〕After Procrustes , a mythical Greek giant who stretched or shortened captives to make them fit his beds 源自 Procrustes ，希腊神话中的巨人，他将俘虏拔长或截肢以使他们与床齐长 〔Hymen〕The god of marriage.（希腊神话）婚姻之神〔Pelion〕A peak, 1,601.9 m (5,252 ft) high, of northeast Greece in eastern Thessaly. According to Greek legend, it was the home of the centaurs, especially Chiron.培里翁峰：希腊东北部一海拔1,601.9米(5,252英尺）的山峰，位于狄瑟利东部。在希腊神话传说中它是人首马身怪物，尤指开纶的家园 |
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