- 1卡珊德拉（預言災禍卻沒人相信的人）
When people call someone a Cassandra, they mean a person who warns that something bad is coming, but nobody listens. The name comes from old Greek stories. Cassandra was a princess of Troy. She could see the future, and she warned her city that the Greeks’ wooden horse was a trick — and she was right — but no one believed her, and Troy fell. So the word is not just “someone who thinks disaster is coming.” The sting is that the warning is true, and still no one trusts it. You meet it in news and essays more than in chat; it feels a little like a book-word. Parents still name girls Cassandra, and that use is only a name, not the warning.
組成From Ancient Greek Κασσάνδρα (Kassándra).
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
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Cassandraname/kəˈsæn.dɹə/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA prophetess who was daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecuba. She captured the eye of Apollo and was granted the ability to see the future; however, she was destined never to be believed.
- And so when Cassandra foretold the evils that were to come upon Troy, even her own people would not credit her words.
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A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- But succeeding ages (little regarding S. Chrysosthome's admonition to the contrary) have recalled prophane names, so as now Diana, Cassandra, Hyppolytus, Venus, Lais, names of unhappy disaster are as rife, as ever they were in paganism.
- Warren J. Tyler, son of Joel, was born in Byron, July 28, 1828. He married Cassandra Tyler, of Stafford, and has four children living.
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An unincorporated community in Walker County, Georgia, United States.
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A small borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Cassandranoun/kəˈsæn.dɹə/
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A person who makes dire predictions, especially those which are not believed but which turn out to be true.
- "Well, take my word for it, those girls will never marry; marriage is like money—seem to want it, and you never get it." The Cassandra was scarcely departed, when the objects of her oracle appeared—Mrs. Fergusson and her two daughters.
- 1876–1877, "The New Republic", book III, chapter IV, page 46 in Belgravia: An Illustrated London Magazine, volume XXXI 'By the way,' said Mr. Saunders […] , 'I suppose I may speak the truth freely, as I know well enough that all to whom my vaticinations would be unwelcome are sure to mistake me for a Cassandra.'
cassandranoun
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Synonym of leather leaf (“Chamaedaphne calyculata”).
- Very commonly the forerunner of mat formation is the cassandra (Chamaedaphne calyculata). This shrub occurs both along the shore and along the edges of the advancing mat and frequently grows out several feet into the open water.
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