时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  我们中国人用“及时雨”或“半路杀出个程咬金”来形容那些在关键时刻出来解围的人物,在英语中这样的关键人物叫做deus ex machina 。但是这个拉丁语太复杂了,所以我们来看看另一个简单好记的同义词:Ghost 1 in the machine 2。


  Ghost in the machine源于拉丁语deus ex machina(God from the machine)。deus ex machina是希腊或罗马戏剧中的解围之神,可能当时的剧作家们写作时常常会遇到情节前后抵触、故事走进瓶颈的情况,就想出这样一个神,能够突然从天而降,使所有不合理的事情变得合理。在戏剧演出中,deus ex machina总是被舞台机关送到台上,专门消除剧情冲突或使主人公摆脱困境。后来,deus ex machina就泛指解围的人或事件了。


  据《牛津英语词典》记载,英国哲学家吉尔伯特·赖尔在他1949年出版的著作《心的概念》中用the ghost in the machine 来表示他所反对的一种观点:人类的思维和肉体是完全独立和分割的。显然这是赖尔根据deus ex machina进行的一种“再创造”,现在已经成为英语里一个不可缺少的词汇了。



n.鬼魂,幽灵
  • Have you ever seen a ghost?你看见过鬼魂吗?
  • He looked as if he had seen a ghost.他好象见了鬼似的(很惊慌的样子)。
n.机器,机械装置,机械般工作的人;v.以机器制造;(计算机)机器
  • I can't guess how to control the machine.我猜不出来怎样操作那台机器。
  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。
学英语单词
ac charging
accelerating relay
aluminium boat
anabiotic state
analgesic drug
ananym
aqualands
atoner
auto code system
auto frettage
bankomycin
Beagh, Slieve
biareolate
black box method
black mangrove
bless his heart !
boat hire
breast of deer
Carisbad
chloramphenicol succinate
Chouzy-sur-Cisse
clithon sowerbianus
confiscatory tax treatment
contribute to
corticotrophin
cypress swamps
dawnward
Dehdez
determination of crystal structure
digitonin reaction
Dutch-elm beetle
duyre
Elmvale
employee services
enter password
Euonymus nanus
face-sit
feinsinger
foot wall
forced convection subcooled boiling
Global finance
gosu (kosu)
ground supply socket
GTGP
halaqah
halochromy
icterus catarrhalis
Lagrangian coordinates
land formation
landholders
literary figures
litist
loss on stock redemptior
macromodels
meagrest
miscastings
musculussuspensorius duodeni
narrowing of attention-span
negative power coefficient
Nile, Source of the
nonlinear time-varying model
northern barramundi
now-a-days
Nā'ālehu
one-sample problem
polianite (pyrolusite)
prompting screen
pull-through winding
pyrimetamine
quinquennial valuation
re face
re-caps
remotely-operated
resprayers
resupination
retail sale
rightfully
Roman arch
room temperature strength
safe-load
scholar-teacher
sea painter
search stopper
send something out
slit-lamp
spirantal
stable acceleration process
standard transmissions
subenamel membranes
Suycener
T-bracket
technician
throw down a gage
thymiaterion
thyristor gating circuit
thyroixin
tshaped serial
turnover labour
two-cell partition
unaudited voucher
wan-
wild cassava