Siren
['saɪr(ə)n] or ['saɪrən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills.
(noun.) an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning.
(noun.) a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound.
(noun.) a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived; 'Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song'.
校對:塞尔玛--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.
(n.) An enticing, dangerous woman.
(n.) Something which is insidious or deceptive.
(n.) A mermaid.
(n.) Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long.
(n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.
手打:曼弗雷德
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Tempter, seducer, Circe, bewitching or fascinating woman.[2]. (Zoöl.) Mud iguana.
a. Alluring, seducing, tempting, bewitching, fascinating.
整理:肯尼思
解釋/意思:
n. (Gr. myth.) one of certain sea-nymphs who sat on the shores of an island between Circe's isle and Scylla near the south-western coast of Italy and sang with bewitching sweetness songs that allured the passing sailor to draw near only to meet with death: a fascinating woman any one insidious and deceptive: an instrument which produces musical sounds by introducing a regularly recurring discontinuity into an otherwise steady blast of air: an instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones: an eel-like amphibious animal with only one pair of feet inhabiting swamps in the southern states of North America.—adj. pertaining to or like a siren: fascinating.—n. Sirē′nia an order of aquatic mammals now represented by the dugong (Halicore) and the manatee (Manatus).—adj. Sirē′nian.—v.i. Sī′renise to play the siren.
弗恩手打
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively any lady of splendid promise dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
巴拉克編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- A siren worked by explosion of small quantities of oxygen and hydrogen mixed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- By means of an apparatus called the siren, it is possible to calculate the number of vibrations producing any given musical note, such, for example, as middle C on the piano. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- How does a Siren Fog Horn Blow? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The mortal maid on the shore is helpless against the siren who loves her prey: such victims are floated back dead from their adventure. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Other titles came later into general use, the royal or carthorne, carrying 48 pounds; the culverin, 18 pounds; the demi-culverin, 9 pounds; the basilisk, 48; the siren, 60, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Well, if you don't mean to be won by the sirens, you are right to take precautions in time. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Three other sirens made to give vocal sounds or articulate speech. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
胡安編輯