单词 | ulysses |
释义 | Ulyssesn. Used as the type of a traveller or adventurer; occasionally also, of a crafty and clever schemer. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > adventurous venturer1530 outloper1566 Ulysses1611 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ov Famous Sir Iohn Mandeuil our English Vlysses. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxii. 68 Klesmer was as versatile and fascinating as a young Ulysses. 1915 J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers iv. 68 I had been dreaming of foreign parts..and here on a Glasgow stairhead I had found Ulysses himself. 1959 T. H. White Godstone & Blackymor 172 That Ulysses, that circumnavigator, that..cheated husband. 1981 P. Vansittart Death of Robin Hood ii. vii. 84 Richard [Lionheart]..was invisibly present, a resentful Ulysses marking his victims. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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