时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  我们中国人用“及时雨”或“半路杀出个程咬金”来形容那些在关键时刻出来解围的人物,在英语中这样的关键人物叫做deus ex machina 。但是这个拉丁语太复杂了,所以我们来看看另一个简单好记的同义词:Ghost 1 in the machine 2


  Ghost in the machine源于拉丁语deus ex machina(God from the machine)。deus ex machina是希腊或罗马戏剧中的解围之神,可能当时的剧作家们写作时常常会遇到情节前后抵触、故事走进瓶颈的情况,就想出这样一个神,能够突然从天而降,使所有不合理的事情变得合理。在戏剧演出中,deus ex machina总是被舞台机关送到台上,专门消除剧情冲突或使主人公摆脱困境。后来,deus ex machina就泛指解围的人或事件了。


  据《牛津英语词典》记载,英国哲学家吉尔伯特·赖尔在他1949年出版的著作《心的概念》中用the ghost in the machine 来表示他所反对的一种观点:人类的思维和肉体是完全独立和分割的。显然这是赖尔根据deus ex machina进行的一种“再创造”,现在已经成为英语里一个不可缺少的词汇了。



n.鬼魂,幽灵
  • Have you ever seen a ghost?你看见过鬼魂吗?
  • He looked as if he had seen a ghost.他好象见了鬼似的(很惊慌的样子)。
n.机器,机械装置,机械般工作的人;v.以机器制造;(计算机)机器
  • I can't guess how to control the machine.我猜不出来怎样操作那台机器。
  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。
学英语单词
a clergyman's sore throat
academic work
Akauktaung
allis
ambly-
antiromantic
at one and the same time
auxospore
balaniform
belt puncher
blastotomy
bowwows
capital repair of fixed assets
catamaran yacht
chain cleavage
Chekina, Zaliv
chelydre
chionaspis trochodendri
claymated
cock one's eye
concrete class
condensing monochromator
conjoining
d'ee
dehybridize
dicysteines
domestic workers
dxe
elastic diaphragm switch
fistulization
float copper
flowtop
fontinaliss
good old time
graphite resistance
hgih angle
Home Hill
honesttogoodness
hydrostop cylinder
ILAMS
immune hemolytic disease
io moths
irritable cough
kanamine
lachrymal punctum
leanita
lytic enzyme
manned diving
Mata Redonda, Pta.
medium nucleus
medium-texture soil
mehle
met his waterloo
modrow
molding bench
Mullaghcarn
Młoty
neurohypophyseal
noncarbohydrate
nonevanescent
nonzero sum game model
NUCOMPS (nuclear core monitoring and prediction system)
number of trowel plate
offdrill anchor
order santalaless
ordered page
original procedure
Orvagil
outcounts
Oxagepam
Palaeosyops
palleting
pneumatic conveying
point diffusion kernel
potyvirus blackeye cowpea mosaic virus
quota share reinsurance
retinitis simplex
reversal of a machine
rheidaes
rhomboclases
rounded down
s-block element
Saussurea cordifolia
second screen
senior statuss
series coil trip
soil suborder
sparsomycin
styme
subject oneself to
suffer an upset
Tamalous
Tebecid
trousers
turpeyl
ultrasonic thermometry
unit transistor
veitches
venture-capital
von neumann type computer
weld procedure test
zakat