英语词汇“Eumenides”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

Eumenides

释义

Eumenides, n. pl. Mythol.|juːˈmɛnɪdiːz|
[a. L. Eumenides, a. Gr. Εὐµενίδες (θεαί) gracious goddesses, f. εὐµενής well disposed, friendly.]
Euphemistic name for the Furies (see fury n. 5 a). Also fig.
1651Hobbes Leviath. i. viii. 37 The same Græcians did often ascribe madnesse, to the operation of the Eumenides.1794tr. Pausanias' Descr. Greece I. ii. xi. 166 A grove of scarlet oaks, which contains a temple of those goddesses which the Athenians call Semnai, and the Sicyonians Eumenides.1853J. R. Lowell in Putnam's Monthly Mag. Nov. 458/1 Driven by the Eumenides of unfulfilled purpose.1870Ruskin Lect. Art vi. 150 While Apollo or Athena only slay, the power of Demeter and the Eumenides is over the whole life.1939T. S. Eliot Family Reunion i. ii. 62 The curtains part, revealing the Eumenides in the window embrasure.1986N.Y. Times 19 Oct. vii. 7/3 We can think of him only as a sympathetic hero hounded by the Eumenides of lust.

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