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单词 Atlantean
释义

Atlantean1

/ətˈlantɪən /
Mythology
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of the legendary island of Atlantis: she lives in an Atlantean castle...
  • I myself am a native of Atlantis, but Rhea is from the Atlantean colony of Nile, which eventually became known as Egypt.
  • The film plays pretty fast and loose with the Atlantean mythology.
  • The Azores were supposedly the tips of Atlantean mountains.
noun
A native or inhabitant of the legendary island of Atlantis: when the explorers reach the city they meet the Atlanteans...
  • He won't be welcome without proof of being an Atlantean.
  • While doing a "reading," he reportedly discovered his patient was a reincarnated Atlantean.
  • Atlanteans were far more advanced in technologies than we are, able to leave the planet and go into deep space.

Rhymes

Atlantean2

/ətˈlantɪən /
Greek Mythology
adjective
1Relating to or characteristic of Atlas, one of the Titans, who was punished for his part in their revolt against Zeus by being made to support the heavens: Atlantean shoulders fit to bear the weight of mightiest monarchies...
  • "Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load Well-nigh not to be borne Of the too vast orb of her fate."
  • His was no Atlantean strength, capable of sustaining any great cause steadily and firmly.
  • D'Alembert abdicated responsibility as editor and left the undertaking to fall heavily on the single Atlantean shoulder of Diderot.
1.1Referring to a great weight or burden of responsibility: I’m terrified you’re going to buckle under the Atlantean burden...
  • They gazed on the road with a solemn, placid expression, as of men to whom the Atlantean weight of this weary world was as the down on a feather.
  • Whitman set himself the Atlantean task of uplifting into the sphere of poetry the whole of modern life and man, omitting nothing, concealing nothing.
  • Bold would be the man who should undertake such an Atlantean labour.
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