- 1雅典衛城（衛城；不是單指帕德嫩神廟那一棟）
The Acropolis is the ancient high fortress of Athens: a rocky hill in the middle of the city where people could go if the city was attacked, and where the great temples still stand. The is the famous one on top, but the Acropolis is the whole hill-place, not that one building. Tourists go there in huge numbers; in English, when we say the Acropolis with a capital A, we almost always mean this Athens one. Though actually, acropolis can also be a common noun for the high citadel of other ancient Greek cities — you will meet that in history books — but the everyday word in travel talk is the Athens site. Formal in the sense that it is a proper name, not a rare or academic invention.
組成From Ancient Greek Akrópolis: ákros “highest / at the tip” + pólis “city” — “the high city.” By the pieces you can still see: acro- + -polis.
同家族的字
- metropolissame Greek pólis “city”
- necropolissame pólis: a “city of the dead,” a large cemetery
- acrobatsame Greek ákros “highest / at the tip”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Acropolisname/əˈkɹɒpəlɪs/
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The Athenian Acropolis.
acropolisnoun/əˈkɹɒpəlɪs/
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A promontory (usually fortified with a citadel) forming the hub of many Grecian cities, and around which many were built for defensive purposes before and during the classical period; compare Acropolis.
- The Etruscans, then, appear in general as an industrious people ( φιλότεχνον ἔθνος), of a bold and lofty spirit of enterprise, which was greatly favoured by their priestly aristocratic constitution. Massive walls, mostly of irregular blocks, surround their cities (not merely their acropoleis); the art of protecting the country from inundations by the construction of canals, and outlets from lakes, was very zealously practised by them.
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