prodigy
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
源自中古英語 prodige (「徵兆」),源自拉丁語 prōdigium (「預兆,預示」)。
發音[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
prodigy (複數 prodigies)
- (現已罕用) 預兆,先兆 (自15世紀)
- 1971年,Keith Thomas,Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 87:
- John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.
- 1715,Homer, Iliad,translated by Alexander Pope, Book XII:
- These on the farther bank now stood and gazed,
By Heaven alarm』d, by prodigies amazed:
A signal omen stopp』d the passing host,
Their martial fury in their wonder lost.- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 1971年,Keith Thomas,Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 87:
- 怪事,異常;怪獸;怪人 (自16世紀)
- 奇蹟,盛況,極好的事物 (自17世紀)
- 榜樣,模範 (自17世紀)
- 神童 (自17世紀)
近義詞[編輯]
- (神童): wunderkind, girl wonder, girl-genius, boy-genius, boy wonder, child prodigy
相關詞彙[編輯]
參見[編輯]
延伸閱讀[編輯]
- 「prodigy」, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- 「prodigy」, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
- OneLook 在線詞典 上有關 prodigy 的釋義