| 单词 | Prometheus |
| 释义 | Prometheus /preuh mee"thee euhs, -thyoohs/, n. Class. Myth. a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules. |
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