Houyhnhnm
['huihnəm]
解释:
(noun.) one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift.
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解释:
(n.) One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.
整理:纳特
解释:
n. one of the noble rational horse race in Gulliver's Travels.
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例句:
- The author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his house. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Then the bay tried me with a second word, much harder to be pronounced; but reducing it to the English orthography, may be spelt thus, _Houyhnhnm_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- He was sure no _Houyhnhnm_ alive could make such a vessel, nor would trust _Yahoos_ to manage it. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The word _Houyhnhnm_, in their tongue, signifies a _horse_, and, in its etymology, the _perfection of nature_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The Houyhnhnm's notion of truth and falsehood. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The Houyhnhnm, his master, assists in teaching him. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The author meets two Houyhnhnms. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- I paid my respects to the rest of the _Houyhnhnms_ in his honour's company; then getting into my canoe, I pushed off from shore. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The food of the Houyhnhnms. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- He asked me, who made the ship, and how it was possible that the _Houyhnhnms_ of my country would leave it to the management of brutes? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- A grand debate at the general assembly of the _Houyhnhnms_, and how it was determined. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The great virtues of the _Houyhnhnms_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The _Houyhnhnms_ have no letters, and consequently their knowledge is all traditional. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The learning of the _Houyhnhnms_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- But, if these censurers were better acquainted with the noble and courteous disposition of the _Houyhnhnms_, they would soon change their opinion. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Several Houyhnhnms of quality come out of curiosity to see the author. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The author's economy, and happy life, among the Houyhnhnms. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
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