dea ex machina

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌdɪə ɛks ˈmakɪnə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A female deus ex machina; a providential intervention (in a story etc.) from a female force or character.
    — That's the end of her story—the Cinderella path—but it's not the end of her life, which is just as well, because the poor little rat-boy ends up in desperate need of a dea ex machina in order to save him from the terrible fate towards which the path of his story seems to be taking him.

词形变化

deae ex machina plural

词源

An alteration of Latin deus ex māchinā in English, substituting the masculine or epicene deus (“god”) with the feminine dea (“goddess”).
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