单词 | phoenix |
释义 | phoenix /fee"niks/, n., gen. Phoenicis /fee nuy"sis, -nee"-/ for 2. 1. (sometimes cap.) a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope. 2. (cap.) Astron. a southern constellation between Hydrus and Sculptor. 3. a person or thing of peerless beauty or excellence; paragon. 4. a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation. Also, phenix. [bef. 900; < L < Gk phoînix a mythical bird, purple-red color, Phoenician, date palm; r. ME, OE fenix < ML; L as above] |
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