| 单词 | calypso |
| 释义 | calypso (once / 84424 pages) n WORD FAMILY calypso: calypsos USAGE EXAMPLESPopular sounds that can be heard on the island are calypso and soca. BBC(Nov 29, 2016) “I couldn’t believe I was listening to calypso music in a Disney movie.” The Guardian(Nov 20, 2016) Who knew what Pound and Eliot were doing fighting, or who the captain was supposed to be, or why the calypso singers laughed at them? The New Yorker(Oct 13, 2016) n rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf Syn|Hyper Calypso bulbosa, fairy-slipper orchid, orchidaceous plant any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors Calypso (once / 22259 pages) n WORD FAMILY Calypso: Calypsos USAGE EXAMPLESAfter that, the magazine continued to publish pioneering pictures of the sea, including photos from explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s voyage on the research ship Calypso. National Geographic(Jul 14, 2016) “The only way to power for women is sorcery. Medea, Calypso, now there were powerful women! And me, of course. The greatest of all.” Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters(2006) My wife called this years ago...the moment she saw that Calypso had opened. New York Times(Jun 03, 2016) n (Greek mythology) the sea nymph who detained Odysseus for seven years Hyper sea nymph (Greek mythology) a water nymph who was the daughter of Oceanus or Nereus |
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