希臘神話與英語

1、She is the Flower Goddess in Greek mythology,she gets married to Zephyrus,her husband sends her a garden with exotic奇異的 flowers and rare herbs.In morden English,it refers to plant.derivative word(衍生詞):flower ,flour , flourish茂盛 , floral植物的 , florist花農(nóng) 芙洛拉They are in charge of art,namely history, lyr

2、ic poetry抒情詩, comedy(include pastoral 牧歌idyll 田園詩, tragedy , musical 歌舞, love poems , ode頌歌, astronomy, epic史詩derivative word：music ,muses沉思 ,museum ,muse ,amusement They are a race of Giants who ever governed world In morden English,it refers to the person who is important or strong.derivative word

3、：titanic The RMS Titanic which sank down in 1912 is named after itA god of Titan,because he betrayed Zeus,he was punished to stand and hold up the sky on his shoulder in the west.16th century a geographer called Mercator used the picture that Atlas hold up the sky as an illustration插圖 in atlasderiva

4、tive word:Atlantic ,atlas(地圖、地圖集、身負重擔的人 )A beauty of youth because narcissism water films that haggardly憔悴地 died and became the daffodils黃水仙 derivative word：narcissus 以美貌自夸的青年；水仙花； 顧影自憐 narcissism 自我陶醉，自戀 A Goddess of the Rainbow,she is a harbinger預言者 of gods.derivative word：ridescent 彩虹色的，燦爛光輝的 Pan

5、dora is a girl in Greek mythology. Prometheus stole skyfire for man .Zeus for punishing man, commands clay into a beautiful young girl who is cunning狡猾的 , named Pandora, meaning with all talent woman. And gave her a gift box, Prometheuss brother Epimetheus opened it taking out all vices, disaster an

6、d diseases immediately. A Pandoras box is used to describe the root cause disaster. Dionysius was a fourth century B.C. tyrant專制統(tǒng)治者 of Syracuse. Damocles is his minister. Damocles always made comments to the king about his wealth and luxurious奢侈的 life. Dionysius turned to Damocles and said, If you t

7、hink Im so lucky, how would you like to try out my life? Damocles readily agreed, and so Dionysius ordered everything to be prepared for Damocles to experience what life as Dionysius was like. Damocles was enjoying himself until he noticed a sharp sword hovering over his head, which was suspended懸 from the ceiling天花板 by a horse hair. Murder and the hazard危險危險 is behind ease and harmonyhis mother is a goddess,and He is a perfect hero who is inv