Sphinx
[sfɪŋks]
[sfɪŋks]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians.
(noun.) (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon.
(noun.) an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret.
手打:梅尔瓦--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
(n.) On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
(n.) Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.
(n.) The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).
阿玛莉亚整理
解釋/意思:
n. a monster of Greek mythology with the head of a woman and the body of a lioness that proposed riddles to travellers and strangled those who could not solve them: an enigmatic or inscrutable person: a hawk-moth: the Guinea baboon.
手打:利奥波德
例句/造句/用法:
- They are the three riddles of the sphinx of fate, to which the human commonweal must find an answer or perish. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You are nothing better than a sphinx! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And a married sphinx isn't a--isn't a nice confidential husband,' said Bella, in a tone of injury. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When her hair was brushed she would instantly sink into stillness and look like the Sphinx. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
整理:辛克莱