| 单词 | 迷宫 |
| 释义 | 〔Knossos〕An ancient city of northern Crete near present-day Iráklion. The center of a Bronze Age culture that probably flourished from c. 2000 to 1400b.c. , it is the traditional site of the labyrinth of Daedalus and the palace of King Minos. 克诺索斯：克里特北部的一个古城，位于现在的伊腊克林附近。青铜时代文明的中心，它可能是从公元前 2000年到1400年很繁盛，它是代达罗斯迷宫和米诺斯国王宫殿传说的所在地 〔inextricable〕an inextricable maze; an inextricable web of deceit.走不出的迷宫；无法逃脱的圈套〔artificer〕"The labyrinth . . . was built by Daedalus, a most skillful artificer"(Thomas Bulfinch)“迷宫…是由最富有技巧的设计师代达罗斯建造的”(托马斯·布兰芬奇)〔Minotaur〕A monster who was half man and half bull, to whom young Athenian men and women were sacrificed in the Cretan labyrinth until Theseus killed him.弥诺陶洛斯：半人半牛的怪物。它住在克里特岛的迷宫中并吃掉雅典进贡的童男童女直至被忒修斯杀死〔labyrinthine〕Of, relating to, resembling, or constituting a labyrinth:与迷宫有关的、与之相似的或构成迷宫的：〔Daedalus〕A legendary artist and inventor, builder of the Labyrinth.代达罗斯：著名的艺术家和发明家，是迷宫的建造者〔Brenan〕British writer. A long-time resident of Spain, he wrote insightful studies of that country, includingThe Spanish Labyrinth, published in 1947. 布伦南，杰拉尔德：(1894-1987) 英国作家。长期居住在西班牙，曾写过关于西班牙的有深刻见地的论文，作品有《西班牙迷宫》 ，于1947年出版 〔unthread〕To find one's way out of (a labyrinth, for example).找到走出（比如，一个迷宫）的道路〔maze〕A graphic puzzle, the solution of which is an uninterrupted path through an intricate pattern of line segments from a starting point to a goal.迷宫：一种图谜，其答案是从起点出发到达终点的通过复杂图案的不间断道路〔warren〕A mazelike place where one may easily become lost:易迷路之地：某个像迷宫的地方，人很容易在此迷路：〔Paz〕Mexican writer whose essays, includingThe Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), and volumes of poetry, such as Sun Stone (1957), often explore the Mexican identity. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize for literature. 帕斯，奥科塔维奥：(生于 1914) 墨西哥作家，他的文章如《孤独的迷宫》 （1950年）和大量诗歌如 《太阳石》 （1957年），常常探求墨西哥人的个性。获1990年度诺贝尔文学奖 〔complex〕"No one could soar into a more intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology" (Anthony Trollope). “没有人能够攀进复杂的专业术语的优雅迷宫” （安东尼·初蒲）。〔Ariadne〕The daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë who gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth.阿里阿德涅： 米诺斯和帕西法尔的女儿，曾给特修斯一个线团，（帮助）他走出米诺陶洛斯的迷宫〔labyrinth〕An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze.迷宫：一种复杂的建筑，里面的通道互相连接很容易使人迷路；曲径〔mazy〕Resembling a maze, as in design or complexity; labyrinthine.迷宫般的，错综复杂的：在设计或复杂性上象迷宫的；迷宫般复杂的〔labyrinthine〕"the labyrinthine corridors and alleys of bureaucratic red tape"(William H. Hallahan)“官僚主义就如迷宫中的回廊，又象小巷般的繁文缛节”(威廉H.哈勒汉)〔clue〕Variant of clew 1 [from Theseus's use of a ball of thread as a guide through the Cretan labyrinth] clew1的变体 [源于忒修斯用一团线作作为引导而穿过克里特迷宫] |
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