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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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
4-pentynoic acid
5-dimethylamino-1-pentene
acography
adynerigenin
arterial(line)catheter
assume an attitude of
auto-rosette
bacillary emulsion tyberculin
bangiadulcis atropurpurea
Bid.
block anesthesias
blood wart
bottom drop car
center-zero instrument
Chervyanka
chloralosed
common - law marriage
coordination cost
country clearing
de-airing of clay
deep sky object
direction-finding hut
electric parts
far-point
fever diet
formateurs
girth welder
gostele
ground water plane
GWAP
handle bar plug
handpress
Hartley oscillator
hexality
histel
hydrofurfuramide
hyocephalid
illumination length
industrial punk
insects awaken
intercommunication telephone set
inverted repulsion motor
Jablah
Kaberamaido
Kirsten propeller
lagrange top
left heart insufficiency
long international voyage
long-term security cover
male chauvinist pig
material interpretation
Mathieu functions
mckernan
mercury gather
Mil. Std.
milk performance
miltiade
monastic habits
multiple comparision
Nesbitt method
nodal equilibrium equation
one-sided nozzle
order-takers
paparigas
passing method
personal-best
Pfaffian differential equation
phenazepam
plate making
ponomaryov
posttesticular
quasi-instantaneous
rain on
Randlev
rind rot
SDH (seasonal derating hours)
sea acceptance trial
seaboot
selectors(controls)
senior mechanical engineer
sovereign debt crisis
spinely
starter air jet
subcritical reactor
syphi-lous
syphon(pipe,tube)
taplectic
thermal gradient measuring probe
thrummingly
topomer
trepanning tool
triazure
triethylene glycol diglycidyl ether
triple precision
type language
vahini
vascular tissue
venkes
water-skiers
weather sides
white slime mushrooms
yuvs