Boreas

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈbɔːɹɪəs/    美 /ˈbɔɹɪəs/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. The god of the North Wind. Greek
    — For a Tempeſt. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auſter and Boreas, and caſt them together in one Verſe. Add to theſe of Rain, Lightning, and of Thunder (the loudeſt you can) quantum ſufficit. Mix your Clouds and Billows well together till they foam, and thicken your Deſcription here and there with a Quickſand. Brew your Tempeſt well in your Head, before you ſet it a blowing.
  2. The north wind personified. poetic
    — Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).
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