Hesperides

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden filled with trees that grew golden apples in a far western corner of the world, located in Libya or the Atlas Mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus; they are said to be the daughters of Hesperus. Greek,plural,plural-only
  2. The garden of the Hesperides. Greek,plural,plural-only
  3. A paradisaical land of plenty, especially one in the far West. figuratively,plural,plural-only
    — Inclinations no leſs vigorous have of late been obſerved in Europe, but with more ſucceſs; who not being bounded by Herculean Bars, paſt ſo far through (till then) the unmeaſured Atlantick, that they lighted upon a new World, a flouriſhing Heſperides, Regions whoſe Sands were Gold, Earth Plate, and Rivers Silver, a Paradice extended to the Arctick and Antarctick Circles, with ſeveral other Countries and Iſlands that reach almoſt the utmoſt latitude of either Poles, out-ſhining all the Fables of Antiquity, and boldeſt Tales of their Poetick Dreams; […]

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From Latin Hesperides, from Ancient Greek Ἑσπερίδες (Hesperídes).
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