Delphi
['delfaɪ] or ['dɛlfaɪ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus; site of the oracle of Delphi.
校對:米利森特--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- There was no oracle at Delphi now to tell him that he was destined to destroy a great empire. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Delphi was particularly famous for its oracle. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Georgias made a present to the temple of Delphi of his own statue in solid gold. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The ploughing of certain sacred lands near Delphi by the Phocians was, for example, the pretext for a sanguinary Sacred War. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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.
- His method of trial we will not relate here, but it led him to the belief that the Delphi Oracle was alone trustworthy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Nothing to us, I replied; but to Apollo, the God of Delphi, there remains the ordering of the greatest and noblest and chiefest things of all. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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