喜樂美語
  1. 1n/əˈpɑloʊ/ · /əˈpɒləʊ/Greek god of the sun阿波羅

    In the old Greek and Roman stories, the god of the sun, of healing and medicine, of poetry and music, and of knowing what will happen. Pictures and statues almost always show him as a beautiful young man.

    Apollo 是希臘和羅馬神話裡的一位神。他管的事情很多。太陽、醫藥、詩、音樂，還有預言，都算在他身上。畫作和雕像裡，他幾乎都是一個年輕又好看的男子。這個形象很固定，後面幾個用法都是從它長出來的。寫的時候開頭一定大寫。它是專有名詞，講神本人時前面不加 a。

    示範例句 · Example

    In the old stories, Apollo drives the sun across the sky each day.

    中文翻譯在那些古老的故事裡，阿波羅每天駕著太陽橫越天空。

    Apollo is a name, so it starts with a capital letter and normally takes no article: we say the god Apollo, not an Apollo, when we mean the god himself. One god covers a wide range of things here: daylight, health, song and poetry, and telling the future. The picture that goes with the name is always the same one, a young man who is very good-looking, and the other uses of this word grow out of that picture.

    常見搭配

    • the god Apollo

      阿波羅神

      Apollo himself, named in full

      The story begins with the god Apollo watching from above.

    • a statue of Apollo

      阿波羅雕像

      a carved figure showing Apollo

      A statue of Apollo stands at the museum entrance.

    • the temple of Apollo

      阿波羅神廟

      an ancient building where people came to worship Apollo

      We walked up the hill to the temple of Apollo.

    用法接近

    ArtemisZeusHelios

  2. 2n/əˈpɑloʊ/ · /əˈpɒləʊ/handsome young man (literary)美男子

    正式A very handsome young man. Used this way, the word belongs to literary writing much more than to everyday talk.

    把一個年輕男子叫做 an Apollo，是說他長得非常好看。這個用法直接借自那位神。神話裡的阿波羅永遠是年輕俊美的樣子。名字變成普通名詞以後，前面要加 a 或 an。它偏文學，常出現在小說或比較舊的文字裡。日常講話比較少用，平常會說 handsome 或 good-looking。有時候也會寫成小寫的 apollo。

    Here the name has turned into an ordinary noun, so it takes a or an: he is an Apollo. Calling someone an Apollo says he is beautiful to look at, and it borrows that meaning straight from the god, who is always shown young and handsome. It carries a literary flavour, so you meet it in novels and older writing; in ordinary conversation people say good-looking or handsome instead. It is also written with a small a at times, as apollo.

    常見搭配

    • a young Apollo

      俊美的年輕男子

      a young man who is strikingly handsome

      He stood there like a young Apollo in the doorway.

    • look like an Apollo

      長得像美男子

      to be very handsome to look at

      In that photograph he looks like an Apollo.

    意思相近

    Adonis