Homer
['həʊmə] or ['homɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a base hit on which the batter scores a run.
(noun.) ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC).
(noun.) United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910).
(noun.) an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
(verb.) hit a home run.
校对:威尔默--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
(n.) See Hoemother.
(n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
手打:奥利
解释:
n. a Hebrew measure of capacity amounting to about 10 bushels and 3 gallons.
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例句:
- The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Like Homer, he is said to be buried in many other places, but this is the only true and genuine place his ashes inhabit. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He does not, like Heracleitus, get into a rage with Homer and Archilochus (Heracl. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- You seem to know your Homer, Count, said the Rector, rather surprised at the classical knowledge of this ignorant young man. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- But, if Homer never did any public service, was he privately a guide or teacher of any? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- But they did not; and therefore we may infer that Homer and all the poets are only imitators, who do but imitate the appearances of things. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- He was just beginning to be conscious that the past had a history; but he could see nothing beyond Homer and Hesiod. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The armour of Diomede, says Homer, cost only nine oxen; but that of Glaucus cost a hundred oxen. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He may make Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Plato, Bacon the friends and companions of his life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Aha, Miss Rosy, you don't know Homer from slang. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- And I can hardly be mistaken in saying that sweet sauces are nowhere mentioned in Homer. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Away with the lying dream of Agamemnon in Homer, and the accusation of Thetis against Apollo in Aeschylus. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I think Homer, with his 'multitudinous laughter of the sea,' is the only poet who pays Ocean a compliment. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Homer to the Greeks was a Bible, a textbook of morals, a history, and a national inspiration. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Homer wrote his poem, called the _Odyssey_, some hundred years before the birth of Christ. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
富兰克林校对