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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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
acid-resistant system
Allschwil
anaphylactogenesis
Anazarbus
anti-structure
Arctic alpine flora
Arietites
ascending frontal bristles
B-complex vitamin
Bellevaux
bonded structure
butterworth-heinemann
byte mask
caseouse
Character Studio
chipped away at
classer's staple length
Clematoclethra strigillosa
cobyrinic acid
constant-load arrestment mode
Corvisart
counter-acquittance
crispener
Cuidado, Pta.
cydophosphamide
differencial duplex
Eclosin
Engel-Recklinghausen disease
equisrgnal radio beacon
eresiphake
error category
Euboean
ex con
Falkia
faraone
field layer
fly back
full-wave amplifier
gilded chamber
height of the chamfer
herken
in the middle of the night
injection loss
internal-broaching
international federation of computer sciences (ifcs)
kellermann
knock kown
knowledge structure
laminectomy retractor
Lappula scleroptera
leather dope
line of same declination
look to sb for help
lymphoma of breast
machine foundation
material order
McEwen's points
megalosaurid
microrotation
mowt
nominal axis of rotation
nominal mass of drill pipe
optical illusions
original header
over flow
overrested
Pastukhovo
Pedicularis macilenta
phase shifting parameter
pyroglyphids
quickhatch
readee
rectangular wave generator
response time utility function
reverse limiting valve
revised budget
scoar
seawoman
self adjusting stop
series compensating winding
shake maps
simple context
soit
standing hay
stillhouse
stoichiometric concentration
submatrix pattern
superposed current
the goes co.
thrust nozzle
ticket vending machines
tippy toe
turn sb over the perch
utility model patent
vanishing man concept
volt-ampere-hour meter
waveforms
well sifted
white-skinneds
writing task
zahringer
Zygadenus Michx.