epithet
['epiθet]
n.性质描述词, 称号, 浑名
vt.(以修饰语)描述
例句与用法:
He cursed me, using a lot of rude epithets like "bloody".
他用了一大串诸如“该死的”之类的粗俗词语来诅咒我。
A descriptive term; an epithet.
描述词一个描述性的词语; 绰号
词形变化:
形容词: epithetic |
n.[C]
1. 表示特征的修饰词
He cursed me, using a lot of rude epithets.
他用上许多粗鲁的修饰词来诅咒我。
2. (描述性的)称号
In "Alfred the Great", "the Great" is an epithet.
“阿尔弗雷德大帝”中的“大帝”是个称号。
epithet
名词复数:epithets
词形变化:
形容词: epithetic |
词义辨析:
同义:
n.称号, 绰号
nickname
pet name
appellation
designation
name
honorific
label
tag
sobriquet
n.咒骂语
curse
oath
expletive
epithet['epiθet]n.1.■表述词语(表述人或事物的性质、特征的形容词、名词或短语等;常作轻蔑用语,如“egghead”作“知识分子”解)2.■(用作描写、说明的名称或称号,附加于名词后的)描述词(如Philip the Fair美丽的菲利普;America the Beautiful 美丽的美利坚)3.■绰号,诨名;别称;带侮辱性的称谓(如“The Lion-Heart”“狮心王”是理查一世的别称)4.■谩骂(或侮辱)性词语5.■【生物学】(动植物学名中的)种名(或变种名等)部分6.■[废语]表达方式,措词
epithetepithet[ˈepiθet]n.1.■表示性质[特征]的名词[形容词, 短语]2.■附加于人名后的描述语, 称号, 绰号3.■【生】(一属中的)亚类名词4.■骂人的话, 侮辱性词语
继承用法epithetic(al)[ˌepiˈθetik(əl)]adj.1.■(用)性质形容词的
[ˈɛpɪθɛt]
noun
- an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
(表述人或事物性质、特征的)表述词语
old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet ‘dirty’.
老人常常被不公正地用“脏”来描述。
epithetic
adjective
epithetical
adjective
epithetically
adverb
语源
- late 16th cent.: from French épithète, or via Latin from Greek epitheton, neuter of epithetos 'attributed', from epitithenai 'add', from epi 'upon' + tithenai 'to place'
epithet
■"In 'alfred the Great', 'the Great' is an epithet."
"阿尔弗雷德大帝""中的""大帝""是个称号。"
■IS "kiasu" a commendatory epithet, or a derogatory one? After much deliberation, I have decided to label it as neutral.
“怕输”这个词是褒义还是贬义,笔者反复的思考,最后认为还是用中性词来形容它较为恰当。
■5. IS "kiasu" a commendatory epithet, or a derogatory one? After much deliberation, I have decided to label it as neutral.
“怕输”这个词是褒义还是贬义,笔者反复的思考,最后认为还是用中性词来形容它较为恰当。收藏指正
■"I wonder what he'll find to match this epithet, commented another man.
“看他对上一句什么,”又一个说。
■Gossip men, know as "long-tongued men", are found everywhere although the epithet is somehow none too popular yet.
“长舌男”是到处有的,不知为什么这名词尚不甚流行。
■In 'Alfred the Great', 'the Great' is an epithet.
“阿尔弗雷德大帝”中的“大帝”是个称号。
■Substitute “whippersnapper” for your chosen sexist or racist epithet and then imagine how many job interviews you can cram into your sudden abundance of free time.
。用“自以?是的年?人”,?代替你??的?有性?歧?或种族歧?的蔑?,然后?想一下,在你陡然充裕的?暇??里,能?加多少工作面?。
■In "Alfred the Great", "the Great" is an epithet.
「阿佛利大帝」中的「大帝」是个称号。
■But there was no mourning, just cheering for the so-called "death of a racial epithet".
不过没有人感到悲恸,人们只是为这个种族侮辱性称号的死亡而欢呼。
■Two decades ago Germany's unit labour costs, for instance, were some 12% above the euro-zone average, earning it the epithet of the “sick man of Europe”.
举例来说,过去的二十年里,德国的单位人工成本比欧元区平均水平高出12%,也因此得到了“欧洲病夫”的绰号。
■Verified Subspecies Epithet Provided by (English)
亚种名订正影像提供者(英文)
■On Logical Contradictions in Oxymoron and Transferred Epithet from the Perspective of Pragmatics
从语用视角看矛盾修辞和移就修辞中的逻辑矛盾
■they were also occasionally brigaded together with the heavy cavalry for a charge, in which case they would have been re-armed with the sarissa and given the epithet sarissophoroi.
他们有时候也和重骑兵一起组队突击,在这种情况下他们就装备长矛并被授予的突击骑兵称号。
■"EPITHET provides further evidence that the time window for thrombolysis treatment might be extended beyond 3 hours in some patients," they conclude.
他们结论表示,EPITHET提供进一步的证据指出,血栓治疗的时间在某些病患可以延长到发作3小时之后;
■He sometimes has the tendency to remain silent about his achievements and thereby foregoes much credit but this can only be attributed to his modesty and disregard for epithet.
他时常不会去宣扬自己取得的成绩,因此错过了不少嘉奖,这也只能归倃于他的谦逊以及对头衔的不在乎。
■He actually deserves that overused epithet "the last movie star.
他的风格体现了演员对自身和所扮演银幕形象所应有的自知之明。
■The epithet has no Chinese equivalent, he noted, probably because "aggressive" ways and attitudes are missing in Chinese culture
他说“aggressive”并没有中文译词,这说明在中国文化内没有类似“aggressive”的作风或态度。
■The epithet has no Chinese equivalent, he noted, probably because "aggressive" ways and attitudes are missing in Chinese culture.
他说“aggressive”并没有中文译词,这说明在中国文化内没有类似“”的作风或态度。
■He also offered two choices of presenting this holy epithet as written horizontally, from left (the customary way nowadays) or from right (the traditional Chinese way).
他还提供了此圣号的两种款式以供选择,(现在通用的)从左到右或从右到左(中文传统模式)。
■Buddhists adopted the term as an epithet for the Buddha and his arahant disciples.
佛教常以此作为佛陀和他的阿罗汉弟子的一个别称。
■For instance, oxymoron, hyperbole, zeugma, synaethesia and transferred epithet can be interpreted from the perspective of“order and disorder”;
例如,“有序性和无序性”理论可以用来理解矛盾,夸张,共扼,移就和通感修辞;
■One could let the dinner cool if the cuckoo were shouting on the hill and William had not found the exact epithet he wanted.
假如天色已经不早,布谷鸟还在山上歌唱,而威廉正在为找一个合适的词来形容那美妙的歌声而大伤脑筋时,他们可以任凭晚餐变凉。
■A little history: During the post-World-War-II era, the Japanese economy often lived up to its Homeric epithet: the Miracle Economy.
先回顾一下历史。二战之后,日本经济的表现的确可以用史诗般的语言来描述:经济奇迹。
■Loaid loanum Variety Epithet Loan Serial Number
出借记录编号
■a resident of Galilee (an epithet of Jesus Christ)
加力力地区的居民(耶稣基督的称号)
■a resident of Galilee (an epithet of Jesus Christ).
加力力地区的居民(耶稣基督的称号)。
■Lucifer Epithet for Twelve Constellations
十二星座的魔鬼绰号
■The epithet of the great antagonist who was expected by the early Church to set himself up against Christ in the last days before the Second Coming.
反基督教者,早期教会认为在基督复活之前的最后几天反对基督的对抗者。
■That is, an adjectival species epithet must - with very few exceptions - agree in gender with the name of the genus in which it is placed.
发表于1930年以后的动物名称还需提供对该物种的描述并有附图;
■A name or descriptive epithet.
名称,称号
■Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by the passing stroller with the epithet: melancholy, the apparently objectless promenades of the dreamer.
因此,富于冥想的人爱在那些缺少诱惑力、从来就被过路行人视作“凄凉”的地方,带着漫无目的的神情徘徊观望。
■Thus they denote the folly of a servant, an omission of a child, a stone that cuts their feet, a continuance of foul or unseasonable weather, and the like, by adding to each the epithet of Yahoo.
因此,当它们要表达仆人荒诞、小孩懒惰、石头割伤了脚、恶劣天气连绵不断等等很坏意思的时候,总要在每一个上面加上“野胡”一词。
■In the Creation Epic Enuma Elish Mummu is the third primeval being, the vizier of Apsu and ad hoc personalized as if to show how Ea obtained his well known epithet Mummu.
在创世史诗里面,牧牧是第三种原始生命,阿帕苏的精灵,特别地被人格化,好像是说明了伊亚是如何获得“牧牧”这个著名绰号。
■Of the 382 tablets that have been found, two were signed with the feminine epithet "Mistress of the Lionesses.
在已经发现的382块泥板中,有2块是由绰号“母狮子”的女性签署的。
■The inference behind the epithet was not lost on Paddy; he went as white as his son
在形容词后面的推论刺痛了帕迪,他的脸色马上变得象他儿子一样白。
■In the climax of his exasperation he hurled an oath at the dog and a coarse epithet at his mistress
在气头上,对着那只狗吐出一声咒骂,还对它的女主人吐出一句粗鄙的恶言。
■In the expression of transferred epithet, the role of adjective is not to assign attributes to the noun, but to prompt relevant cognitive framework.
在移就表达中,形容词的作用不是给所修饰的名词指派特征,而是提示人们激活认知框架。
■In memory of the dream at Gaya he was given the name of Gadadhar, the "Bearer of the Mace", an epithet of Vishnu.
在迦耶之梦的回忆上,他给孩子命名为嘎达达尔,意思是“权杖的送信人”,毗瑟奴的一个称号。
■Disciple Suan Kuang in Melaka, Malaysia wrote me a supplication asking me to write in calligraphy the holy epithet of the Earth Treasure Bodhisattva.
在马来西亚,马六甲的弟子传光写了一祈请电邮,要求我手书地藏王菩萨的圣号。
■And quite right, too.They get caught in trees (hence the epithet “Witches' Knickers”), take hundreds of years to decompose and push up demand for oil, used to make plastics.
塑料袋的确危害很大,它们挂在枝头(由此而得“巫婆的灯笼裤”之名),需要数百年才能分解,它们助长石油需求,正是石油用于制造塑料。
■Beatrice:Suffer love! a good epithet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.
壁阿垂斯:受罪于爱!这句话说得精准!我确实在爱里受苦,因为我爱你违背了我的意志。
■an exaggerated epithet used to categorize a person
大帽子
■She makes love with him, who acquires pleasure and cannot spare time for bad deeds.That is why it gains the epithet.
女像是观音菩萨化身,与大荒神相交,使其欢愉而无暇做坏事,故称“欢喜天”。
■Indeed, some observers fear that the antiscience epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless.
实际上,观察家们担心"反科学"的头衔正面临着推动意义的危险。
■Therefore, let me be reconciled to being saddled with the epithet of "originator of a bad practice"
就让我当一个“始作俑者”吧!
■As requested by disciple Hao below, I had written the holy epithet of "Namo Spotless Eyes Buddha" in calligraphy.
应子浩以下之提请,我已将〈南无无垢目如来〉的圣号书成翰墨了。
■As you requested I had written the holy epithet of Medicine Guru Buddha in calligraphy. It is attached.
应您之请求,我已手书药师佛的圣号。档案附呈。
■Credat Subspecies Epithet Record Creation Date
建档日期
■As I have ventured, perhaps too hastily, to commit to the press a work which in every sense of the word, deserves the epithet of imperfect.
恰如我所冒险的那样,或许比较草率,无论在何种意义上来说,做这样一项工作都是有缺陷的。
■In reply to a question raised by Zhi Xuan, the Medicine Guru Buddha epithet in my calligraphy can also be offered on the altar or burned for His blessing.
我回覆智宣的提问:我手书的南无药师琉璃光如来亦可供奉在佛桌上或焚化以得其加持。