prodigy
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源自中古英語 prodige (“征兆”),源自拉丁語 prōdigium (“预兆,预示”)。
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prodigy (複數 prodigies)
- (現已罕用) 预兆,先兆 (自15世纪)
- 1971年,Keith Thomas,Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 87:
- John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.
- 1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XII:
- These on the farther bank now stood and gazed,
By Heaven alarm’d, by prodigies amazed:
A signal omen stopp’d the passing host,
Their martial fury in their wonder lost.- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 1971年,Keith Thomas,Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 87:
- 怪事,异常;怪兽;怪人 (自16世纪)
- 奇迹,盛况,极好的事物 (自17世纪)
- 榜样,模范 (自17世纪)
- 神童 (自17世纪)
近义词 编辑
- (神童): wunderkind, girl wonder, girl-genius, boy-genius, boy wonder, child prodigy
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- “prodigy”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- “prodigy”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
- OneLook 在线词典 上有关 prodigy 的释义