时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:突破英文词汇


英语课
1. odyssey 1 /ˈɔdɪsi:/
-- any long series of wanderings or travels
Odyssey是有关奥德修斯在特洛伊战争后十年流浪返乡的史诗。《奥德赛》是古希腊最重要的两部史诗之一(另一部是《伊利亚特》),相传为盲诗人荷马所作,两部作品统称《荷马史诗》,是西方文学的奠基之作。《奥德赛》延续了《伊利亚特》的故事情节,话说经过特洛伊战争之后,在希腊军回家途中,希腊英雄奥德修斯(Odysseus)(罗马神话中称为“尤利西斯”)在特洛伊陷落后返乡的故事。十年特洛依战争结束后,奥德修斯又漂泊了十年,才回到了故乡伊萨卡。
Your travel agent will galdly plan a year's odyssey to places of interest around the world.
你的旅行代理将会很乐意为你制定到世界各处名胜旅游的全年计划。
 
 
2. paean 2 /ˈpi:ən/
-- song or hymn 3 of praise, joy or triumph
paean是赞美阿波罗的颂歌。
When the victory was announced, people danced in the streets and sang paeans 4 of joy.
宣布胜利后,人们在街上跳舞,唱着欢乐的歌。
 
 
3. palladium /pəˈleidiəm/
-- safeguard or protection
Palladium是佩拉斯·雅典娜——特洛伊城保护女神的雕像。Palladium 指雅典娜女神的神像,尤指特洛伊卫城里那座古老的木制神像,据传此像确保Troy 的安全。另外,化学元素钯palladium的pallad就来自于Pallas Athena ,-ium 表示元素的后缀。
The little girl habitually 5 fell asleep clutching a battered 6 doll, her palladium.
那小女孩习惯抱着一个破旧的娃娃入睡,那是她的守护神。
 

n.长途冒险旅行;一连串的冒险
  • The march to Travnik was the final stretch of a 16-hour odyssey.去特拉夫尼克的这段路是长达16小时艰险旅行的最后一程。
  • His odyssey of passion, friendship,love,and revenge was now finished.他的热情、友谊、爱情和复仇的漫长历程,到此结束了。
n.赞美歌,欢乐歌
  • She struck up the first paean on the grand piano.她开始在那架大钢琴上演奏起第一首颂歌。
  • The novel is a paean to the end of empire.该小说奏响了一个帝国落寞的赞歌。
n.赞美诗,圣歌,颂歌
  • They sang a hymn of praise to God.他们唱着圣歌,赞美上帝。
  • The choir has sung only two verses of the last hymn.合唱团只唱了最后一首赞美诗的两个段落。
n.赞歌,凯歌( paean的名词复数 )
  • Kepler in particular wrote Paeans to God on the occasion of each discovery. Kepler在每次获得发现时都对上帝写了颂歌。 来自辞典例句
ad.习惯地,通常地
  • The pain of the disease caused him habitually to furrow his brow. 病痛使他习惯性地紧皱眉头。
  • Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair. 我已经习惯于服从约翰,我来到他的椅子跟前。
adj.磨损的;v.连续猛击;磨损
  • He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
  • The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。
学英语单词
- morphy
abnormal value
acheilary
active optics
ADMIF
agrotechnicians
air bind
alkaline
ampullae membranacea
apologised
argilliferous
astill
bead test
beaus
bonus tax of state enterprise
Building shell conservation feature
ceramic-on-metal
chassis concrete
cladophora sibogae
commendation and penalization of employee
constant voltage/constant current power supply
consumption energy
croisement
cube farm
deep reticular layer
dipsia
disenslave
divo
effective conductance
elliptical refector
ethylalcohol
factorization by grouping
failed state
fibrous wool
fire coinsurance
flame arrester
float test index
furcula
gaseous tension
gauge of tracks
get even with somebody
getoes
give the reins to
GM_thing-and-stuff
guisings
Harcourtian
high-water season
historic building
immunoturbidimetry
indicator cord
inhibition phenomena
jet streams
kinetic activity
kingsolver
knuckles
laser beam flying
line of floatation
line of whirl
longanberries
lossing proposition
love in a puff
lsi-cml circuit technology
lunar interior
main reservoir chamber cap
meso carbon atom
minacy
needle nose plier
nora
notched edge disk
original charter party
original idea
osteomeles anthyllidifolia subrotunda
plain tool rest
plot area
pomegranate-tree
remaining at post without wage
rosmarinuss
screen scraper
sensor glove
shaft-end output
sheet pile cell type wharf
shuttle depth
side crank shaft
single-turn potentiometer
skin flute
sleeve-type engine
social Darwinism
solid wall
standard billing rate
structural description
subtruding
suffice as
support disk
table-tapping
tenderpreneurs
the working class
transfer matic
transfer-prohibited signal
turbine-electric locomotive
unthinkable
vacuum thermometer
vegetative hybridization