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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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
abinet vapor bath
activated zinc flower
age structure model
Amandola
angelic non-determinism
antipsychologists
application explorer mission
artreiograph
asynergy minor
attempre
ballast cargo
balz-sehiemann
banhammer
Bardai
bath metal
battery exhaust valve
BECILLIN
benchers
bonacon
boron-nitrogen compound
calcium content
cangeant
ceramist
Chalca
chalocite
circular path crack test
citrate gel method
cod i.
Damerham
Degos-Delort-Tricot(syndrome)
Diplococcus orchitidis
dipsy
dorso-alar region
drilling crew
eczematous epidermal nevus
flatseam stitch
foilborne condition
framestores
Frederick III
general ledger for properties and commodities
hamell
have a circulation of
Hudson, Cerro
hurdlings
hybrid DNA
hydroformer
interommatidial
intersystemic
ketalars
latten brass
leadin
load divider
loath-to-depart
Makkah(Mecca)
Marquess of Queensberry rules
milk of bismuth
Moonfishes
mucous peithelium
nonjanitorial
nylon sleeve
Oamaru stone
office indicator
overall development plan
PAMETRADA
peak-pulse amplitude
pracharaks
pro-wrestling
program switch list
psalmwriter
pyrasteel
real-valued measurable
report on starting of construction work
retimo
revolution speed
Richard Wright
right occipitoanterior
Roinin
Sabril
second-lieutenants
seedling packing machine
selling order
settling column
skin holes
snd.
spheric angle
steel ordering
stradanus
Substation Configuration Language
term eurodollar
tetraglycine hydroperiodide
teynd
time-trial
Toryish
traister
vagina (semivagina) processus styloidis
valvelead
variable frequency method
vasp
Warsop
wyschogrod
X-gear pair with reference center distance
yaw stiffness