deus ex machina

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英语[编辑]

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词源[编辑]

非同化借詞,源自拉丁語 deus ex māchinā (即设备,脚手架等机械, 字面意思是来自机械的神),源自古希臘語

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例 (生硬的情节转折)
  • 主人公醒来,发现一切都只是一个梦
  • 一个主角从一个意外的地方突然跳出来在千钧一发之际救了某人

deus ex machina (複數 dei ex machina dei ex machinis deus ex machinas)

  1. (authorship) 强行生硬,不合逻辑故事转折,故事结尾
    • 2007 8月 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, 出自 New York Times[1]:
      The repeated tactic of deus ex machina (without a deus) has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue.
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    • 2011 1月 20, Dave Thier, “‘Parks and Recreation’: Comedy Imitates Life (Sort Of)”, 出自 The Atlantic[2]:
      Despite the government shutdown, at the end of the last season Knope is able to put on a children's concert in the abandoned lot she's been trying to turn into a park due to a quick deus ex machina.
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    • 2017 6月 26, David Sims, “How Will ‘Silicon Valley’ Work Without T.J. Miller?”, 出自 The Atlantic[3]:
      Compared to that, the season-four finale “Server Error” felt comparatively tame, focusing mostly on Richard’s maniacal efforts to create a new kind of internet, which were helped along by a confusing deus ex machina.
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  2. (引申义) 意外且依靠外部力量解决方案鬼使神差
    • 2017 8月 14, David A. Graham, “The Search for a Magical Way to Stop Trump”, 出自 The Atlantic[4]:
      Handler’s bad advice for generals [] is mostly notable as the most extreme expression of peculiar pleas by Trump opponents who seek some deus ex machina that will stop the president: generals simply disobeying the president, other civil servants refusing to follow through on orders, or even the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
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  3. (歷史書面) 机械降神 在希腊或罗马戏剧中,依靠舞台器械登台救场的神祇[1]
    • 1959, Mary Stewart, 章號 XVII, 出自 Nine Coaches Waiting, M. S. Mill Company,頁號 268:
      I was going to wait for Monsieur Hyppolyte and, like a craven, hand the whole thing over to him. Let the deus ex machina fly in out of the clouds...
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  4. (歷史) (协助此种角色登台的)活板门吊车等器械

用法说明[编辑]

  • 罕见地,复数作dii ex machina, di ex machina, dii ex machinisdi ex machinis
  • ex machina结尾的复数形式直译为“从一台机械降临的神们”,而以ex machinis结尾的则意为“从几台机械降临的神们”,使用时,这些复数形式的词义通常保留这一语义上的差别,但是仅为比喻义。

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参考资料[编辑]

  1. American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1982, 页388.

德语[编辑]

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deus ex machina m (強變化, 屬格 deus ex machina, 複數 dei ex machina)

  1. Deus ex Machina的另一種寫法

变格[编辑]

拉丁语[编辑]

词源[编辑]

仿譯古希臘語 ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós)

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短语[编辑]

deus ex māchinā

  1. 机械降神

波兰语[编辑]

波蘭語維基百科有一篇文章關於:
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词源[编辑]

非同化借詞,源自拉丁語 deus ex māchinā,仿译自古希臘語 ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós)

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deus ex machina (無比較級)

  1. (書面) 意外解决方案

名词[编辑]

deus ex machina m 個人 (無屈折)

  1. (Ancient Greece古羅馬drama歷史書面) 机械降神 救场的神祇突然出现的情节
  2. (Ancient Greece古羅馬drama歷史書面) 机械降神 在希腊或罗马戏剧中,依靠舞台器械登台救场的神祇
  3. (書面) 意外的救场
  4. (書面narratology) 强行生硬,不合逻辑故事转折,故事结尾

延伸阅读[编辑]

  • 參見deus ex machinaWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN 中的內容
  • 參見波蘭語詞典PWN上有關deus ex machina的內容

葡萄牙语[编辑]

名词[编辑]

deus ex machina m (複數 deuses ex machina dei ex machina)

  1. (narratology) 强行生硬,不合逻辑故事转折,故事结尾

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