时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:突破英文词汇


英语课
1. saturnine 1 /ˈsætəˌnaɪn/
-- heavy; dull; gloomy; morose 2
Saturn是Jupiter之父,虽然传说中他的统治期是黄金时代,可是炼丹家与天文学家把他的名字与重金属铅相联系,因而成为阴沉与忧郁的象征。萨图尔努斯(Saturnus),罗马神话中的农业之神。萨图尔努斯本来是罗马最古老的神祇之一,但从前3世纪开始,他被与希腊神话中的克罗诺斯(Kronos)混同。关于克罗诺斯的一些神话,如吞食亲生子女等等,被加到有关萨图尔努斯的神话里。萨图尔努斯的儿子就是罗马神话中的主神朱庇特。神话描写萨图尔努斯在被朱庇特推翻后逃到了拉丁姆,并教会了那里的人民耕种土地;这就是罗马农业的由来。土星(Saturn)和星期六(Saturday)得自于萨图尔努斯。
My former roommate was a saturnine scholar who said very little and smiled rarely.
我前一位室友是一位沉默寡言的学者,他很少说话也很少笑。
 
 
2. siren /ˈsaiərin/
-- 1. dangerous, attractive woman 2. a woman who sings sweetly 3. apparatis for sounding loud warnings
Siren是一种半人半鸟的动物,以其甜美的歌声诱惑水手使其撞上岩石而死亡。塞壬(Siren)又译作西壬,她们的别名是阿刻罗伊得斯,意即“阿刻罗俄斯的女儿们”。塞壬用自己的歌喉使得过往的水手倾听失神,航船触礁沉没。是希腊神话中人首鸟身(或鸟首人身、甚至跟美人鱼相类)的怪物,经常飞降海中礁石或船舶之上,又被称为海妖。
The enemy employed a red-haired siren as a spy.
敌人雇用了一名红发美女作间谍。
 
 
3. solon /ˈsəulən/
-- 1. legislator 2. wise man 
Solon为著名的雅典立法者。梭伦(Solon),生于雅典,出身于没落的贵族。他年轻时一面经商,一面游历,到过许多地方,漫游名胜古迹,考察社会风情。梭伦是古代雅典的政治家,立法者,诗人,是古希腊七贤之一。梭伦在前594年出任雅典城邦的第一任执政官,制定法律,进行改革,史称“梭伦改革”。
Next week the solons will return to the capital for the opening of the legislature.
下星期议会开幕,议员们会回到首都。
 

adj.忧郁的,沉默寡言的,阴沉的,感染铅毒的
  • The saturnine faces of the judges.法官们那阴沉的脸色。
  • He had a rather forbidding,saturnine manner.他的举止相当乖戾阴郁。
adj.脾气坏的,不高兴的
  • He was silent and morose.他沉默寡言、郁郁寡欢。
  • The publicity didn't make him morose or unhappy?公开以后,没有让他郁闷或者不开心吗?
学英语单词
a floor under wages
administrative advice
Afrasian
all gas turbine propulsion
all-aft
alternate order
ambient sound
anaglyta
anascope
arts center
aslet
automatic regulating box
axial temperature distribution
Bejestan
benevolent autocracy
boiler foundation
Buclina
Cardamine agyokumontana
chemical testing
clutch rolling key
conons of taxation
controlled variance
creeping crowfeet
crosscut handsaw
deep suction share
differential gain error
down-the-row thinner
enshrines
estimating according to the results of past fellings
fairy rings
fibrous falc
floatation unit
Flulon
follow in someone's steps
fraks
frisby
fully automation
glycidyl-polymer
greater lip of pudendum
gss
hadl
heatshrinks
hooting
housedog
icing tower
impact-testing apparatus
insulating carboard
jakob boehms
jan gossaert
jankowski
kiddie car
kirtles
linearly independent elements
lubricating oil pressure
lunar retreat hypothesis
may as well
mcgreavy
mental psychotic
minority ethnic
motherchuckers
MUF observed value
nidamental chamber
nubby
obtuse-angled
olympic-quality
open one's mouth wide
original magma
oriocrystal
outage period
overcount
overhead price
paramecium caudatum
pate a choux
pointed stake
polling schemes
qualium
quiet motor
ragequits
relationship-oriented therapy
replicative function
revoluta
salvor
salyer
saw setting machine
schanks
sinicum
slide push fit
somesthetic sensibility
standard luminosity function
street-lighting transformer
tiem
tittivation
to attire oneself in...
to make an abstract of...
Triple Entente
tworoom
ubacs
war-effort
white chauvinism
wiskostatin
world and his wife