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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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
access technology
accurate recording
alkyd adhesive solution
alkyl mercury
antil
bed linens store
beters
black as a crow
Black English
blemishless
bougie (bejaia)
bracken fern poisoning
bromchlorenone
catch sb with the goods
chair back
cheap and nasty
coke breaze
colophonate
coming right up
computer-telephony integration
concoction
cosell falsus
cryogenic wind tunnel
cubo cubic transformation
cupful
Darband-e Gharbī
dextro-pantothenylalcohol
dichotomous branch
do accounts
drum cleaning
ejected filling retaining plate
elmhirst
embolon, embolum
entertainment and social activity expenses
equipotentiality hypothesis
escort vehicle
fantasizers
fight at close quarter
fire alarm station
folding scale
Fortizyme
genus Sarcodes
green friendly
Hippel's disease
hit a brick wall
horizontal tailplane
incineration plant
ingoufs
instanding
insulation apron
isogeneic strain
just-picked
keel strake
keep it inside
kinetic energy of a particle
Kopargo
linearising
literatesque
macrophage inhibition test
maxilla fracture
megaloureter
methylamines
minimal orbit closure
minitour
multiple hemorrhagic sarcoma
myagrus yagii
natural obstacle
nephrotomies
non-ECC
nonfragile
nuttin'
open decoder
optical modulation depth
palatal nystagmus
period of retention
pimiento
plesmalogen
protection of child labour
quasi-particle pair
Ragusan
red cardinal flower
renumerates
Rhodospirillum rubrum
rhomboidical
rhythmic time signals
ring bus
rivet backer-up
rule of simplification
saltopuses
self-comdensation
Shamballa
small heath
stalthe
sulfabenzaminum
tangle net
thermohaline current
threskiorniss
took kindly to
treatment efficiency
universal bevel
Ural Altaic
zippable