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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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
'Ammār, Tall
abacarus inversus
adempt
alarm gun
Alpera
arc-form sawing
arteriosclerostic psychosis
atmosphere science
attached type vibrator for concrete
autologous skin grafting
axi-compressor
beam guidance system
bedlinen
booty calls
burried arc furnace
caligo
cancer drugs
Ching Ming Festival
closed bids
cofacilitating
cognate ejecta
confluxible
date driving wheel stud
Denver boot
dorsal-biconvex
drain main
durability
dynamometertype
fastness to sublimation
flame r proof motor
forejudgement
fuel filling column
genus chrysothamnuss
good fair average
graleys
gross ton-kilometers
hard and sharp
headrushing
hexylic
highlight control
horrox
hydraulic-power plant
hydroxyeremophilenolide
ingoufs
instantaneous error of rotation
isodif
juvenile-onset
kitchen-garden
latex cells
legged it
leighly
locally convex linear topological space
mammography program
manufactured product
maol
mechanism with flexible elements
melene
Messerschmidia sibirica
mixed acid fermentation
mobile production platform
molted
NAVSO
neck of humerus
nilpotent transformation
noise in gradient estimate
non-tenure-track
nonorthogonal axes
octahedral cleavage
oliguretic
on your knees
osbun
otioseness
out of all reason
overflow control device
overleaf
oxazolyl
penetration value
pholiotas
plating iron
polygonal overhead contact system
porkburger
product complex
product uniform space
Rexist
Russian bar
salt pond
self-force
seligmannite
seven-day
ship's fitting
sill high
spin the platter
straight shot
strappados
stubble plow
tell ... a thing or two
The Ranking of Preference of Maritime Lien
tracks
vanity sizing
viscosity-index
wire twisting machine
xylobotryum andinum