Achillean
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A fighter on the side of Achilles in the Trojan war; an Achaean.
— [A] singular genius, whose mathematical studies gave him in his own day the reputation of a necromancer, espousing fervently the cause of Hector, called out in a voice of thunder, "Let us see whether the Achilleans can fight as well as speak?"
形容词 adj.
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Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
— Guyon subdues these Achillean affections through his own power; but they break out again as Cymochles lapses into lust and Pyrochles burns in the idle lake.
- Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.; Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall.
- Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.; Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason.
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Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer.
— There is, I suggest, a typically Achillean joke at play here, a visual pun, displaying the phoenix as truly phoenix-ian in its exposure of its sex organs and at the same time snidely alluding to the Phoenicians' famed preoccupation with female genitalia.
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Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.
— Tendon-reflexes, as a rule, remain intact, except the Achillean one, which is frequently either absent or lowered.
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Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus.
— Historically, there was indeed an Achillean, homosexual flavor of the declassé bachelorhood out of which Hitler and others formed the advance guard of National Socialism.
词源
词源 1
From Latin Achillēus + -an. By surface analysis, Achilles + -ean.
词源 2
From Latin Achillēus + -an. By surface analysis, Achilles + -ean.
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