Apollo
[ə'pɒləʊ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis.
整理:莱斯利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Your horses of the Sun, he said, And first-rate whip Apollo! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I am a friend of Apollo's. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- They abounded in China, in India, and in Egypt before the lyre of Apollo was invented, or the charming harp of Orpheus was conceived. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- His finely turned head might be copied for that of the Apollo Belvidere, and yet he has no vanity. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Graham was a beauty; a very Apollo in form, with handsome features, particularly his teeth and eyes; sensible too, and well educated. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- This Apollo, for instance, he said, as they paused before a life-sized nude figure holding a lyre, was found at Delos and brought to me. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Your mourning Man of Sorrows is entirely opposed to our joyous Apollo, your gloomy views of life to our serenity of temperament. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Epic poem--ten thousand lines-- revolution of July--composed it on the spot--Mars by day, Apollo by night--bang the field-piece, twang the lyre. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Mars, Bacchus, Apollo virorum, hey? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- As Apollo,' replied Winkle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- You are sensitive about the cut of your features because they are not quite on an Apollo pattern. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Nothing for us; but to Apollo the god of Delphi we leave the ordering of the greatest of all things--that is to say, religion. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Your words have delineated very prettily a graceful Apollo: he is present to your imagination,--tall, fair, blue- eyed, and with a Grecian profile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Away with the lying dream of Agamemnon in Homer, and the accusation of Thetis against Apollo in Aeschylus. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- As little can I believe the narrative of his insolence to Apollo, where he says, 'Thou hast wronged me, O far-darter, most abominable of deities. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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