时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:突破英文词汇


英语课
1. odyssey 1 /ˈɔdɪsi:/
-- any long series of wanderings or travels
Odyssey是有关奥德修斯在特洛伊战争后十年流浪返乡的史诗。《奥德赛》是古希腊最重要的两部史诗之一(另一部是《伊利亚特》),相传为盲诗人荷马所作,两部作品统称《荷马史诗》,是西方文学的奠基之作。《奥德赛》延续了《伊利亚特》的故事情节,话说经过特洛伊战争之后,在希腊军回家途中,希腊英雄奥德修斯(Odysseus)(罗马神话中称为“尤利西斯”)在特洛伊陷落后返乡的故事。十年特洛依战争结束后,奥德修斯又漂泊了十年,才回到了故乡伊萨卡。
Your travel agent will galdly plan a year's odyssey to places of interest around the world.
你的旅行代理将会很乐意为你制定到世界各处名胜旅游的全年计划。
 
 
2. paean 2 /ˈpi:ən/
-- song or hymn 3 of praise, joy or triumph
paean是赞美阿波罗的颂歌。
When the victory was announced, people danced in the streets and sang paeans 4 of joy.
宣布胜利后,人们在街上跳舞,唱着欢乐的歌。
 
 
3. palladium /pəˈleidiəm/
-- safeguard or protection
Palladium是佩拉斯·雅典娜——特洛伊城保护女神的雕像。Palladium 指雅典娜女神的神像,尤指特洛伊卫城里那座古老的木制神像,据传此像确保Troy 的安全。另外,化学元素钯palladium的pallad就来自于Pallas Athena ,-ium 表示元素的后缀。
The little girl habitually 5 fell asleep clutching a battered 6 doll, her palladium.
那小女孩习惯抱着一个破旧的娃娃入睡,那是她的守护神。
 

n.长途冒险旅行;一连串的冒险
  • The march to Travnik was the final stretch of a 16-hour odyssey.去特拉夫尼克的这段路是长达16小时艰险旅行的最后一程。
  • His odyssey of passion, friendship,love,and revenge was now finished.他的热情、友谊、爱情和复仇的漫长历程,到此结束了。
n.赞美歌,欢乐歌
  • She struck up the first paean on the grand piano.她开始在那架大钢琴上演奏起第一首颂歌。
  • The novel is a paean to the end of empire.该小说奏响了一个帝国落寞的赞歌。
n.赞美诗,圣歌,颂歌
  • They sang a hymn of praise to God.他们唱着圣歌,赞美上帝。
  • The choir has sung only two verses of the last hymn.合唱团只唱了最后一首赞美诗的两个段落。
n.赞歌,凯歌( paean的名词复数 )
  • Kepler in particular wrote Paeans to God on the occasion of each discovery. Kepler在每次获得发现时都对上帝写了颂歌。 来自辞典例句
ad.习惯地,通常地
  • The pain of the disease caused him habitually to furrow his brow. 病痛使他习惯性地紧皱眉头。
  • Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair. 我已经习惯于服从约翰,我来到他的椅子跟前。
adj.磨损的;v.连续猛击;磨损
  • He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
  • The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。
学英语单词
a gang
ad hoc court
air-gunners
aluminum lake
ammonium chlorides
Andrix
boids
brown leaf rust
card transmission terminal
chlorproguanil
ciliarotomy
co-equality
computerized numerical control
core-fundings
coupeau
crosscourt
current probe amplifier
damping disk
desparecido
duodecimally
dust-man
dynamic file organization
Echinodera
Epaenetus
euproctis postfusca
existing railway
fibre moisture regain tester
final velocity (terminal velocity)
fixed size
floral whorl
foldyard
GaAs laser diode
gain prominence
geographias
gloom-and-doom
green-lighted
grouting technology
harriott
have the devil of a job doing something
high speed machinery
Husovice
hydrogeologic cycle
implanted-channel
Kulmakës, Maja e
late adopter
liquid memory
Loolmalassin
lophophorates
luxed up
meghann
Mfou
nardol
NDREA
nectophores
non-polar binding
Nonvianuk L.
oolites
operative actual
options tariff
outer recirculation
pacing off
para-terphenyl,1,4-diphenylbenzene
parent radioisotope
Philips Electronics NV
pick-up brush
plaw
plicae terminalis
pneumatograph
pure binary system
red-water
regional demand functions
revolving coil type
rheid fold
sales of merchandise from stock
scandian
self reset
shants
SIADH
special convoy
starting air reservoir
stern-drive
supracranial
T4SA
technojargon
testicular determining gene
texturizable
third cook
thoghts
twin-core
under-cutting
uniform source of light
vallenato
value of information
variable escapement
verstraete
waist marking
water quality standard of fishery
water-air-cooled machine
Wilbur Wright
wire telegraph network
wolloes
xenagogy