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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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
a ton by measurement
adjustable current setting
ambajogai (mominabad)
anguiner
Arnold Engineering Development Center
ARPA network message
asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia
be in compression
biological adaptation
blood vascular system (or haemal system)
blue-earth
Bota, Sungai
bubble top
colysis henryi ching
compaas
corrody
curvilinearity
cuti-
density interferometer
disk induction motor
Do you understand
doglet
driveline
dropzone
elastic wedge
Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms
entosternum
factualities
family argonautidaes
family planning policy
firstlights
forced-circulation straight-tube steam generator
gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer
Gauss constant
gospel of temperance
handing stolen goods
heb
helping out
hidden-knowledge model
high-level language application programming interface
hyperglobal
intek
irritative cervical sympathetic paralysis
isothyme
journees
keep your distance
kistner
kunai
lagged indicator
lattice reciprocal
legal protection
limiting concentra-tion
liquid-like
list execution condition
low-pollution
machine saw
make one's acquaintance
mallee scrub
manning's coefficient of roughness
marketing director
micro cyclone
microbacillary
native gold
objectizes
oil tanker fleet
P. G. Wodehouse
partly-adjustable weir
piecks
pineapple essence
Pitot's tubes
polymerises
prediction lag
pristinely
proportional-integral-differential
reshape handles
sapropelic substance
secondary alerting system
set sth down
shell and tube heat exchanger
sileages
silicotics
simple epithlium
specific Gibbs free energy
submarine plain
sulphonitriding
sunset budgeting
superstructure end
surfagage
swing line
systema nervorum sympathicum
technical schools
Theodore Of Mopsuestia
thienodiazepines
tildesleys
torch light bulb
tricolons
unfisting
upon second thought s
varicosity in pregnancy
warm-sensitive neuron
weighing station
Znamenka