| 释义 |
tereu Chiefly poet.|tiːˈruː|
A feigned note of the nightingale.
Tēreu vocative of Gr.-L. Tēreus, name in mythology of the husband of Philomela's sister Progne, and father of Itys; all, according to Ovid Met. vi. viii, transformed to birds; the nightingale's note being still a piteous cry to Tereus.
1576Gascoigne Compl. Philomene in Steele Gl., etc. (Arb.) 110 And for hir foremost note, Tereu Tereu doth sing. 1598Barnfield Ode Poems (Arb.) 120 The Nightingale..(poore Bird)..sung the dolefulst Ditty, That to heare it was great Pitty. Fie, fie, fie, now would she cry Teru Teru, by and by. a1627Middleton Father Hubbard's T. Wks. (Dyce) V. 603 Away she flew, Crying Tereu! 1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 124 The Nightingales began to jug and warble their Tereus and Ity's again. 1923T. S. Eliot Waste Land iii. 15 Twit twit twit Jug jug jug jug jug So rudely forc'd. Tereu. 1936R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 125 Hear how it whistles ‘jug, puff-puff, tereu’ Better than any nightingale could do. |