Niobe
['naiəubi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (Greek mythology) the daughter of Tantalus whose boasting about her children provoked Apollo and Artemis to slay them all; Niobe was turned to stone while bewailing her loss.
整理:泰丝--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.
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解釋/意思:
n. daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion king of Thebes. Proud of her many children she gloried over Latona who had but two Artemis and Apollo. But these killed them all on which the weeping mother was turned into stone by Zeus.—adj. Niobē′an.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Never was such wringing of hands and such overflowing of eyes, since the days of St Niobe, of whom Prior Aymer told us. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- And if anything should happen-- Here poor Mrs. Vincy's spirit quite broke down, and her Niobe throat and good-humored face were sadly convulsed. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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