chaos
英['ke??s]
美['keɑs]
- n. 混沌，混亂
- n. (Chaos)人名；(西)查奧斯
助記提示
1. 希臘神話可以說和中國古代神話存在某種程度上的不謀而合，且非常符合中國古代的樸素的哲學思想，即：太極生兩儀，兩儀生四象，四象生八卦；一生二，二生三、三生萬物的哲學思想；即由天地合一的混沌狀態到分出天地，再到其他。如希臘神話的原始神(Chaos)[似乎像是我們的元始天尊]，到分出天地就出現了天神(天王：Uranus / Ouranos)，地神(地母：Gaea / Gaia)，然后到其他神。其生殖方式也符合大自然的進化規律，即先由無性生殖，即單性生殖，然后進化到有性生殖，即雙性生殖。
2. 應該說最初的神，是很抽象的神，是對早已存在事物的抽象化、神化，他們的神的特性是比較模糊的，到后來產生有性生殖后各個神的形象才豐滿起來，才如此的栩栩如生。應該是希臘神話要比咱們中國神話要精彩得多，它的神話非常豐滿、完整、復雜、紛呈，有很多栩栩如生的故事和傳說，并且貼近于人的現實生活，與人的生活有機地耦合在一起，有各種各樣的神，還塑造了很多的英雄形象，并且沒有中國神話中的那些清規戒律。
中文詞源
chaos 混亂，混沌
來自PIE*gheu, 呵氣，張嘴，詞源同gas, yawn.神學術語。
英文詞源
- chaos
- chaos: see gas
- chaos (n.)
- late 14c., "gaping void," from Old French chaos (14c.) or directly from Latin chaos, from Greek khaos "abyss, that which gapes wide open, is vast and empty," from *khnwos, from PIE root *gheu- "to gape, yawn" (cognates: Greek khaino "I yawn," Old English ginian, Old Norse ginnunga-gap; see yawn (v.)).
Meaning "utter confusion" (c. 1600) is extended from theological use of chaos for "the void at the beginning of creation" in Vulgate version of Genesis (1530s in English). The Greek for "disorder" was tarakhe, however the use of chaos here was rooted in Hesiod ("Theogony"), who describes khaos as the primeval emptiness of the Universe, begetter of Erebus and Nyx ("Night"), and in Ovid ("Metamorphoses"), who opposes Khaos to Kosmos, "the ordered Universe." Meaning "orderless confusion" in human affairs is from c. 1600. Chaos theory in the modern mathematical sense is attested from c. 1977.
雙語例句
- 1. Whatever troubles arise, we'll have peace of mind amidst seeming chaos.
- 無論出現什么樣的麻煩，我們都會在貌似混亂的情形中保持平和的心態。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Many editorials express their anxieties about the economic chaos in the country.
- 許多社論對該國經濟的混亂狀況表示憂慮。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He needs them to stop the country sliding into chaos.
- 他需要他們來防止這個國家陷入混亂。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. I think it's going to cause chaos personally but never mind.
- 我個人認為它會引起混亂，但是沒關系。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The world's first transatlantic balloon race ended in chaos last night.
- 昨晚世界第一屆跨大西洋熱氣球比賽在一片混亂中收場。
來自柯林斯例句