ionian的词源
英文词源
- Ionian (adj.)
- "of Ionia," the districts of ancient Greece inhabited by the Ionians (including Attica and the north coast of the Peloponnesus, but especially the coastal strip of Asia Minor, including the islands of Samos and Chios). The name (which Herodotus credits to an ancestral Ion, son of Apollo and Creusa) probably is pre-Greek, perhaps related to Sanskrit yoni "womb, vulva," and a reference to goddess-worshipping people.
Also used of the sea that lies between Italy and the northern Peloponnesus (1630s). The musical Ionian mode (1844) corresponds to our basic major scale but was characterized by the Greeks as soft and effeminate, as were the Ionians generally.
The Ionians delighted in wanton dances and songs more than the rest of the Greeks ... and wanton gestures were proverbially termed Ionic motions. [Thomas Robinson, "Archæologica Græca," 1807]
中文词源
ionian(爱奥尼亚的):希腊神话中宙斯的情人伊娥
在希腊神话中,伊俄是一位美丽的凡人少女,是河神伊那科斯的女儿,赫拉神殿的女祭 司。宙斯爱上了她,在乌云的掩护下与她相会。心生疑虑的赫拉驱散乌云。宙斯怕事情败露,将伊俄变成一头小母牛。赫拉识破了丈夫的诡计,将计就计地向宙斯讨 要了这头小母牛,命令百眼巨人严密看管。宙斯派出赫尔墨斯杀死了百眼巨人。赫拉仍然不肯放过伊俄,派出一群牛虻,不断叮咬被变为小母牛的依娥。为了躲避牛 虻的叮咬,伊俄四处奔跑,渡过了伊俄渡过了博斯普鲁斯海峡,该海峡因此而得名(博斯普鲁斯意为“牛所通过”)。然后又穿过地中海,来到了埃及。从此这片海 便以她的名字命名,叫爱奥尼亚海(Ionian Sea,伊俄之海)。
最后,宙斯请求赫拉放过可怜的少女,伊俄才得以恢复原形。
Ionian:[ai'əunjən] n.爱奥尼亚人,爱奥尼亚adj.爱奥尼亚的,爱奥尼亚人的
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