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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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
adjoining chart
Ahlu Quran
badger-baiting
bomb-bay
Bucknell University
cachette
Chimonobambusa marmorea
chorol
clamp spring
cockerpoo
come down to earth
communication principle
conveners
cooling losses
cooling water channels
Dalbergia L. f.
daylight signal lamp
dedicated port
desert horse
differential atmospheric absorption
downcourt
dukeships
egocentricities
exoccipital cartilage
fast go
fault indication device
Fazeley
figurability
finnocks
flexuous hypha
genus Oryctolagus
glucidic
gnash your teeth
gun-runnings
halodermia
hold copy
initial condition response
interspecific variability
ir reconnaissance system (irrs)
jumping on
leaky turbojet
look right through someone
machinery space bulkhead
magic number in alpha decay
major act of smuggling
maritime protest
micro-incineration
mitral accentuated
monetisation
nasalise
native plum
net confining pressure
Nilom
nonglutinous rice
occluding junction
Odinist
open profile
opg-ligand
organomercurous fungicide
pear aphid
phase microscopy
photoelectron spectroscopy
plain climate
Plant City
plumbic acid
pongsan mask dance drama troupe
positive picture
prescribed period
pulsatilla occidentaliss
R.L.L.
raspily
read detector
rhigi-leduc effect
Richard II
rmu
saccharide(s)
scale or draugh
Schmidt Glacier
segregated band
shadow channel
silver hydrogen phosphate
soapland
sophont
split frame
spray bottle nozzle
stable oscillator
strip-stand method
synchronous RPM
test response compaction
throttle-valve
thyroid function tester
time-varying set of patterns
top pouring through pencil gates
underwater acoustic transducer
venetos
vertical barrel pump
video sensor network
Viola grandisepala
wine-pot with phoenixheaded spout
worcesterberries
yappin'