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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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 sound bite
actual mechanism
advance-decline ratio
allocated quota
annoyed at
bin Laden
bittar
Bow Valley
Burgund guidance system
calc-alkaline series
California lady's slipper
caridina cantonensis
ccm(counter-counter measures)
charge CAP
classical method
cogitability
colour number
cooperative farming
crossed card
destabilisations
differential steering
distinguished symbol
doping method
drylands
evengranular
fieldward(s)
flight demands
frozen plant
fusicoccum persicae
gas blast arc-quenching
glacieravalanche
hard fibre
harpending
hattaway
high density PVC tangle film glassine
high-paying
high-sided
ihu (yhu)
in one's crystal ball
inclusivism
jintee
kenmores
Kobresia cercostachys
lap spot weld
library subroutine
liminares
limited-space-charge-accumulated oscillator
log-off message
lords temporal
M.D.F.
mammary swelling
margin trading
Marsdenia hainanensis
martites
methioturiate
Microsoft System Center
mineral kingdom
mispersuaded
monogenicity
morsitation
multicolour
n quadrant
nailability
neurosec-retory cell
not be born yesterday
operationalistic
pashman
phosphatic calculus
pingwei powder
plicae medullaris
polistes (polistella) eboshinus
postcolumn
power broom
power-factor regulating relay
pre-course
radial plunger type oil motor
rattlestone
rayon back cutting georgette crepe
recording algorithm
relocatable name
reservoir model
reversible inhibition
rhamnus hemsleyana schneid.
rigging luff
sheelaghs
Slater-determinant wave function
sook
string polygon
sweeteria
taber
tamponing
tempings
threshold temperature of ice nucleation
transmissionists
travel to
troglodytism
unsprained
variance of proportion
vorota
workings-out
worsle
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