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单词 Erinys
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Definition of Erinys in English:

Erinys

nounPlural Erinyesɛˈrɪnɪsəˈrɪnəs
  • (in Greek mythology) a Fury.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Clytemnestra's avengers, the Erinyes, suffer a similar fate at the hands of male mythologists and Aeschylus.
    • When Indra slays Vrita, Brahmahatya, a terrible retributive apparition, like the Erinyes or Furies of Greek myth, pursues him.
    • And then there's the Furies: Erinys, goddesses of vengeance.
    • In the course of this event, the Erinyes - the monsters who take vengeance on the wrongdoers, sort of a spiritual force who suddenly appear, as apparitions, and destroy and tear apart those who have been the wrongdoers - appeared.
    • Eumenides takes his name from classical Greece, where it was a euphemism for the Furies, those terrifying Erinyes optimistically renamed ‘the kindly ones’ at the end of Aeschylus' Oresteia.

Origin

From Greek Erinus.

 
 

Definition of Erinys in US English:

Erinys

nounəˈrinəsəˈrɪnəs
  • (in Greek mythology) a Fury.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the course of this event, the Erinyes - the monsters who take vengeance on the wrongdoers, sort of a spiritual force who suddenly appear, as apparitions, and destroy and tear apart those who have been the wrongdoers - appeared.
    • Clytemnestra's avengers, the Erinyes, suffer a similar fate at the hands of male mythologists and Aeschylus.
    • When Indra slays Vrita, Brahmahatya, a terrible retributive apparition, like the Erinyes or Furies of Greek myth, pursues him.
    • And then there's the Furies: Erinys, goddesses of vengeance.
    • Eumenides takes his name from classical Greece, where it was a euphemism for the Furies, those terrifying Erinyes optimistically renamed ‘the kindly ones’ at the end of Aeschylus' Oresteia.

Origin

From Greek Erinus.

 
 
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