odyssey
英 美['ɑdəsi]
- n. 奥德赛（古希腊史诗）
词态变化
复数: odysseys;
中文词源
odyssey 艰苦的旅程
来自古希腊荷马史诗《Odyssey》，主要讲述了特洛伊战争后Ithaca国王Odysseus的十年流亡生涯，引申词义艰苦的旅程。
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. The Odyssey tells what happened to the Greek heroes after the sack of Troy.
- 《奥德赛》讲述的是在特洛伊被洗劫一空之后发生在希腊英雄们身上的故事。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Note how Telemachus in the Odyssey silences his mother.
- 只要读一下《奥德赛》,就可以看到特里曼珠是怎样打断他母亲的话并要求她缄默.
来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
- 3. The march to Travnik was the final stretch of a 16-hour odyssey.
- 去特拉夫尼克的这段路是长达16小时艰险旅行的最后一程。
来自辞典例句
- 4. His odyssey of passion, friendship, love, and revenge was now finished.
- 他的热情 、 友谊 、 爱情和复仇的漫长历程,到此结束了.
来自辞典例句
- 5. Odysseus's heroic exploits are celebrated in ` The Odyssey '.
- 《奥德赛》史诗中歌颂了奥德修斯的丰功伟绩.
来自辞典例句