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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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-type pole
accordion structure
aerodermectasia
aoria nigripes
apto
balanced file
battement degag?
Baudran expansion apparatus
be in a hurry
be symptomatic of
bleed and feed system
bone-fires
bus interface
Caesaraugusta
catlap
Cattaraugus Indian Reservation
centurine
check the helm
Chel-lron
chelp
cherrypick
chesible
chromium hemitrisulfide
contemporary imperialism
context-sensitive menu
corn colour
course cosine cam
declor
devault
die typing
drop funnel
fine distribution
gallium(ii) oxide
Gerard Hoffnung
Gould's jewelfront
groundwater feed
hard returns
hard-tube modulator
have one's tongue in one's cheek
HMO
hold something down
hyperemia
ice-water mixed cloud
iliohypogastric nerve
indium gallium arsenide phosphide/indium phosphide (ingaasp/inp)
inertia relief
input equipment
interbank network
interstage coupling method
Julius I,Saint
legal required field intensity
local data transmission
local light model
m-ways
machatschkiite
maimai
maintain an open mind on something
march in trail
Milevo
mold cooling
Navlinskiy Rayon
nozzle exit momentum
nullator
obliquus capitis inferior
ophthalmophasmatoscope
phylogenetic anatomy
planktohyponeuston
plunger centering knob
program clockwork
pseudodmyxoma peritonei
rank of transformation
Ranvik Bay
red brigadess
released state
reserve fund
residual range
ridker
rock hard
Saint Anne marble
sectiuncule
secularization
semi finished working
shielding ring
smart-ass
soldering board
square root compensation
static multifunction pipeline
striped veneer
submerged unit weight
suffarcinate
sulfur flowers
swabble
syringable
thin planting
unpenetrating
updated version
valance band
venting system
warmth sensation
world patent index
wrist strap
zanakis