odyssey
英美['ɑd?si]
- n. 奧德賽（古希臘史詩）
詞態變化
復數:?odysseys;
中文詞源
odyssey 艱苦的旅程
來自古希臘荷馬史詩《Odyssey》，主要講述了特洛伊戰爭后Ithaca國王Odysseus的十年流亡生涯，引申詞義艱苦的旅程。
英文詞源
- odyssey (n.)
- c. 1600, "Odyssey," from Latin Odyssea, from Greek Odysseia, name of the Homeric epic poem of ancient Greece, relating the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the Trojan War. Figurative sense of "long, adventurous journey" is first recorded 1889.
雙語例句
- 1. The Odyssey tells what happened to the Greek heroes after the sack of Troy.
- 《奧德賽》講述的是在特洛伊被洗劫一空之后發生在希臘英雄們身上的故事。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Note how Telemachus in the Odyssey silences his mother.
- 只要讀一下《奧德賽》,就可以看到特里曼珠是怎樣打斷他母親的話并要求她緘默.
來自英漢非文學 - 家庭、私有制和國家的起源
- 3. The march to Travnik was the final stretch of a 16-hour odyssey.
- 去特拉夫尼克的這段路是長達16小時艱險旅行的最后一程。
來自辭典例句
- 4. His odyssey of passion, friendship, love, and revenge was now finished.
- 他的熱情 、 友誼 、 愛情和復仇的漫長歷程,到此結束了.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Odysseus's heroic exploits are celebrated in ` The Odyssey '.
- 《奧德賽》史詩中歌頌了奧德修斯的豐功偉績.
來自辭典例句