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单词 castor and pollux
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Castor and Pollux
1. Castor and Pollux.
a. The zodiacal sign of Gemini. Obsolete.
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c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 35 Ther wer also apperyng þere þe signes super celestial..As in januari be þe signe þei clepe aquari..in april be þe bul, in may be þe too twynnes castor & pollux.
1587 T. Thomas Dict. Latinae et Anglicanae at Geminus Gemini,..two twins or children borne at one time. Also a signe in heaven called Castor and Pollux.
b. (The type of) two persons or things always found together.In quot. 1526 as the name or sign of a ship, an example of the characteristic use of Castor and Pollux as sacred symbols: see Oxford Classical Dictionary (ed. 3, 1996) at Dioscuri.
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1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xxviii. 11 A ship of Alexandry, which had wyntred in the Yle, whose badge was Castor and Pollux [Gk. παρασήμῳ Διοσκούριος, L. cui erat insigne Castorum, 1611 King James whose sign was Castor and Pollux].
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 36 Truth and peace are the Castor and Pollux of the Gospel.
1702 tr. J. Ozanam Math. Dict. Helena, a sort of Light or Fire that sometimes appears about the Masts and Yards of Ships; when it is double they call it Castor and Pollux.
1849 H. Melville Redburn liii. 337 Are not our thumbs twins? A regular Castor and Pollux?
a1867 F.-G. Halleck Poet. Writings (1869) 272 Together we'll range through the regions of mirth,..The Castor and Pollux of quizzers.
1903 Times 25 Sept. 8/3 These two old 8in. howitzers (Castor and Pollux somebody named them) went on pounding away.
2003 Scotsman (Nexis) 5 Feb. 14 On the economy, as on the war, Labour's Castor and Pollux stand or fall together.
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