millihelen

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A unit of measurement of beauty, corresponding to the amount of beauty required to launch one ship. humorous,informal
    — Now Maria seems to me to be a wonder in every respect that I have had the pleasure of examining, and her clothes are plainly not meant to conceal defects. So what do we say? I'd say 850 millihelens for Maria. anybody bid higher?

词形变化

millihelens plural milli-Helen alternative

词源

From milli- + Helen, referring to Helen of Troy, the maiden so beautiful that her abduction by Paris sparked the Trojan War and was said, in Christopher Marlowe's 1604 Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, to have "launched a thousand ships".
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