时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:突破英文词汇


英语课
1. saturnine 1 /ˈsætəˌnaɪn/
-- heavy; dull; gloomy; morose 2
Saturn是Jupiter之父,虽然传说中他的统治期是黄金时代,可是炼丹家与天文学家把他的名字与重金属铅相联系,因而成为阴沉与忧郁的象征。萨图尔努斯(Saturnus),罗马神话中的农业之神。萨图尔努斯本来是罗马最古老的神祇之一,但从前3世纪开始,他被与希腊神话中的克罗诺斯(Kronos)混同。关于克罗诺斯的一些神话,如吞食亲生子女等等,被加到有关萨图尔努斯的神话里。萨图尔努斯的儿子就是罗马神话中的主神朱庇特。神话描写萨图尔努斯在被朱庇特推翻后逃到了拉丁姆,并教会了那里的人民耕种土地;这就是罗马农业的由来。土星(Saturn)和星期六(Saturday)得自于萨图尔努斯。
My former roommate was a saturnine scholar who said very little and smiled rarely.
我前一位室友是一位沉默寡言的学者,他很少说话也很少笑。
 
 
2. siren /ˈsaiərin/
-- 1. dangerous, attractive woman 2. a woman who sings sweetly 3. apparatis for sounding loud warnings
Siren是一种半人半鸟的动物,以其甜美的歌声诱惑水手使其撞上岩石而死亡。塞壬(Siren)又译作西壬,她们的别名是阿刻罗伊得斯,意即“阿刻罗俄斯的女儿们”。塞壬用自己的歌喉使得过往的水手倾听失神,航船触礁沉没。是希腊神话中人首鸟身(或鸟首人身、甚至跟美人鱼相类)的怪物,经常飞降海中礁石或船舶之上,又被称为海妖。
The enemy employed a red-haired siren as a spy.
敌人雇用了一名红发美女作间谍。
 
 
3. solon /ˈsəulən/
-- 1. legislator 2. wise man 
Solon为著名的雅典立法者。梭伦(Solon),生于雅典,出身于没落的贵族。他年轻时一面经商,一面游历,到过许多地方,漫游名胜古迹,考察社会风情。梭伦是古代雅典的政治家,立法者,诗人,是古希腊七贤之一。梭伦在前594年出任雅典城邦的第一任执政官,制定法律,进行改革,史称“梭伦改革”。
Next week the solons will return to the capital for the opening of the legislature.
下星期议会开幕,议员们会回到首都。
 

adj.忧郁的,沉默寡言的,阴沉的,感染铅毒的
  • The saturnine faces of the judges.法官们那阴沉的脸色。
  • He had a rather forbidding,saturnine manner.他的举止相当乖戾阴郁。
adj.脾气坏的,不高兴的
  • He was silent and morose.他沉默寡言、郁郁寡欢。
  • The publicity didn't make him morose or unhappy?公开以后,没有让他郁闷或者不开心吗?
学英语单词
a book dedication
a call of nature
adopt sb into a family
Air New Zealand Limited
air target mosaic
antilegomena
aphorismical
Arno, Torrente
basic bessemer process
batuss
be in the field
Berrouaghia
binary digital encoding
biological model
blood-pressure meter
bogs off
bone of the bone and flesh
bridge policy
calculation for bolt load of double-cone seal
campanile
card base system
cerullo
chinese translation
cholegraphy
Claremont
cocinero
construction of vagina by pedicled intestinal segment transfer
cube fat cutter
Cynanchum szechuanense
detonating cartridge
dienogest
drilling contractor
eau de nil
endothyroidopexy
equant element
fashionate
fireside chats
fleeringly
fluoro-scandium-complex
grillades
high-yield ion source
holizontal displacing force
hydrangea anomala d. don
imaginal
imbaying
isometric length
kick your heels
Kobnakrom
Kumlu
Laudenbach
leach chemistry
long form audit report
low dive
Lubbers
mahachis
mesodermal mixed tumor of corpus uteri
Microsoft Small Business Server
mignonette
monastral fast blue b.s.
multiplant
muralism
non-destructive testing(NDT)
non-equilibrium isotopic exchange method
nonterminal vocabulary
Okhanskaya Vozvyshennost'
Old South Arabian
perturbment
petternel
phase-lead network
polar semiconductor
pregnancy
r.a.m.
radial beam tube
radix cirsii jeponici
reap one's laurels
rim lock
rotable loop
Schoodic
schoolwork
sea water condenser
seed spot
seismology
semiprozine
shillingless
short circuit input capacitance
short-tack
simply connected covering Lie group
simulated service test
skeezicks
soap mould
stand density index
sterilamp
supporting wire
swsesaslstshs-s
thermospheric circulation
total amount of ozone
transform coding
tussive epilepsy
twin lever
vector lattice homomorphism
willern
zone of intersection