英语词汇“sphinx”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

sphinx

释义

Sphinx or sphinx /sfingks/

noun (pl sphinxˈes or sphinges /sfinˈjēz/)

A monster of Greek mythology, with the head of a woman and the body of a lioness, that lay outside Thebes and proposed riddles to travellers, strangling those who could not solve them
Any similar monster or representation of one, esp any of numerous massive stone statues built by the ancient Egyptians
An enigmatic or inscrutable person (from the facial expression of the huge stone sphinx at El Gîza)

ORIGIN: Gr, from sphingein to draw tight

sphingid /sfinˈjid/ noun and adjective

(a member) of the Sphingidae, the hawk moth family, so called because the posture of its larvae resembles that of the sphinx

sphinxˈlike adjective

sphinx moth noun (N American)

The hawk moth

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