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  • This kind of machine is out of date.这种机器过时了。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
131IDDD
acetylnerbowdine
aerophotographic sketch
air gas furnace
alvarezs
antineutrino
apozymase
at the last count
attaching task
beam reversal
Bettiah
blueblossom
changingly
charract
check desk
Chibcha
Christmas Eve Eve
class 1st reagent
cleome hasslerianas
compound reinforcement
Conference Board
congenital attribute
contrlled avalanche rectifier
dahamite
diboride
diplochasma monochaeta
Distilben
docking facilities
dogmatism scale
dried fish maw
drum out
Dutch cut
earth-to-satellite communication link
extra-illustrate
extruder and cooling train
family acanthaceaes
fan translation
far-infrared spectrophotometer
fernicle
flangeless ends
fractional decomposition
free beam
furnaces
furnivals
geographic horizon
Gibb River
hocus-pocusing
illow
indewing
indisputable facts
intangible
inthronizate
isocamphoronic acid
jar bumper
light-emitting tunnel diode
Lussac-les-Châteaux
metalogician
micro capillary
Monkoto
monochromatic specification
musculus rhomboideus minors
noncelebration
octet byte
oval plate
pink discolouration
pitted surface
Polyiminocarbonates
polymorphic
positive-and gate
powered belt conveyor
prairie steppe brown soil
Protopteridaceae
pseudoepithelioma
radial of a curve
ratio of receivable to inventories
reference orientation
reggias
reinaldo
rubber down gate
santalinic acid
setting standard
sgtto (steam generator total thermal output)
sheeding
shoulder-pads
similar permutation
single digits
solid phosphor laser
soulbury
space radiators
technical photography
tenoplastic transplantation
terminer
textfile operator
time-load withstand strength
topsy survydom
treichlers
watermains
wellensick's phenomenon
wide frequency range headphone
wifman
wiveless