| 单词 | Ganymede |
| 释义 | Ganymede|ˈgænɪmiːd|
Also 6 ganymedes, 6–7 ganimed(e, (7 genymade).
[ad. L. Ganymēdēs, a. Gr. Γανυµήδης a Trojan youth, whom Zeus made his cupbearer.]
1. A cupbearer, a youth who serves out liquor; humorously, a pot-boy.
1608Middleton Mad World ii. i, Shall I be bold with your honour, to prefer this aforesaid Ganymede to hold a plate under your lordship's cup? 1656Cowley Misc., Grasshopper 8 Nature selfe's thy Ganimed. 1693Congreve in Dryden's Juvenal Sat. xi. (1697) 291 A raw unskilful Lad..At once my Carver and my Ganymede. 1826Scott Woodst. ix, The cavalier..arrested the progress of the retiring Ganymede. 1841Punch I. 101/2 Lo! Ganymede appears with a foaming tankard of ale. 1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. I. vii. 153 The foaming jar is ready, and the dusky Ganymede attentive.
2. A catamite.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Puto, a ganymedes, Cynaedus. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 568 A yoong beardlesse Genymade whom he loved. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 55, I crave Thou wilt be pleas'd, great God, to save My sov'reign from a Ganymede. 1708Motteux Rabelais V. (1737) 217 Ganymedes, Bardachoes, Hufflers.
3. The name given to the largest satellite of the planet Jupiter.
1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 232. |
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