ouroboros

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 o͞o-rŏbʹə-rŏs

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
    — The alchemists were fond of picturing their opus as a circulatory process, as a circular distillation or as the uroboros, the snake biting its own tail, and they made innumerable pictures of this process.
  2. Anything of a circular or recursive nature. broadly
    — Like an ouroboros, the story created and informed by the writer’s own experience suddenly flipped back on itself, Childress’s life now reflecting the story rather than the other way around.

词形变化

ouroboroi plural ouroboroses plural uroboros alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
ouroboric
相关词
autocannibalism

词源

From Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος (ourobóros, “tail-devouring”, a compound of οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -βόρος (-bóros, “-devouring”, which is derived from the verb βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat up”))).
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