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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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
account-keepings
aiming unit
air pressures
ambassador-at-large
an article of faith
analytical statements
Anichkov's myocyte
antenna complex
aquilegias
basic cadmium chloride
baulkline
binary buddy system
bump-start
calibrated instrument lead
caseload forecast panel
catchable size
charmphysics
chatting
civil action
close over hexagonal lattice
compound colo(u)r
coota
D. M.
Dalbergia hupeana Hance
digital forensics
environmental remote sensing
epitoniid
equalizing rollers
eugenia formosana hay
exterior components
falling rate
football teams
graph
graphite brick work
grogginesses
haemoglobinopathy
have sb. down
held water
hen fruit
idiomatic
insane diathesis
isotropic plain
jacquets method
jigging procedure
keckles
keever
Kemmunett
leaching ratio
ledger bait
lewiston
liason
locusta migratorias
Love and Kisses
Mis.
mitotic inhibition
multichannel pyrheliometer
negative primaries
Neogyna gardneriana
newdemo
nipponzan
nsn
Ochtendung
off print
oily discharge
opinionize
order bounded linear form
out-synchronous
parasteatoda angulithorax
passing over
prasertsuwan
purebreds
ramp function response
Redjang
remenent
representative circulating
right-angle attachment
Roncal, V.de
Sankt Joachimsthal
seal water pump
search and clear
shinin'
space crew enter spacecraft
special analog computer
special damage
specific measure
status switch
steam coils
straight-line type automatic sampler
stuff grinder
sulphoximides
supply - chain management
tandjung periuk (tanjung priok)
The Pine Tree State
torfer
trichloropropane
TRMM
unilateral devaluation of money
wage related occupation
weave bead welding
wet fatliquoring
witch knot