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In old Greek stories, a Cyclops is a giant with only one eye, set in the middle of his forehead. The best-known one is Polyphemus, who keeps sheep in a cave and traps in the Odyssey. They are huge and rough, more like wild shepherds than city kings.
In old Greek stories在古老的希臘故事裡 a Cyclops is a giant with only one eyeCyclops（獨眼巨人）是一種只有一隻眼睛的巨人 set in the middle of his forehead那隻眼睛長在額頭正中間。The best-known one is Polyphemus最有名的一個是波呂斐摩斯 who keeps sheep in a cave他在一個洞穴裡養羊 and traps Odysseus in the Odyssey並在《奧德賽》裡把奧德修斯困住。They are huge and rough他們又大又粗野 more like wild shepherds than city kings比較像野蠻的牧羊人，而不是城裡的國王。
The Greek name means something like “round-eye.” Though actually, English now uses Cyclops (sometimes written cyclops) for any one-eyed monster in films and games, not only the Greek ones. The stories are old; the game-use is new.
The Greek name means something like "round-eye."這個希臘名字的意思大概是「圓眼」。Though actually不過事實上 English now uses Cyclops (sometimes written cyclops) for any one-eyed monster現在英文裡 Cyclops（有時寫成小寫 cyclops）可以用來指電影和遊戲裡任何獨眼怪物 in films and games not only the Greek ones不只是希臘神話裡的那種。The stories are old這些故事很古老 the game-use is new而遊戲裡的用法是新的。
It has nothing to do with a cyclone, even though the two words look related — they share an old “circle” flavour, but one is a storm and one is a giant.
It has nothing to do with a cyclone它跟 cyclone（氣旋、颶風）一點關係也沒有 even though the two words look related雖然這兩個字看起來很像 they share an old "circle" flavour它們都帶著古老的「圓」的意味 but one is a storm and one is a giant但一個是暴風，一個是巨人。
組成From Latin cyclōps, from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ: “round” (as in a circle) + “eye.”
同家族的字
- cycleshares the old Greek piece for “circle / round”
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Cyclopsname
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Polyphemus, a cyclops character from Homer's Odyssey.
- What was the consequence of killing Cyclops?
- Equally effective is the blinding of Cyclops by Odysseus's men , who run up the inclined surface of the platform to thrust a long makeshift spear into a vividly projected eyeball.
cyclopsnoun/ˈsaɪˌklɑps/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.
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A one-eyed creature of any species.
- Look at just about any vertebrate and you’ll see two eyes looking back at you. Falcons circling overhead have two eyes, just like hammerhead sharks roving through the ocean. Scientists have long puzzled over how the vertebrate eye first evolved. A pair of new studies suggest a strange beginning: Our invertebrate ancestors 560 million years ago were cyclopes, with a single eye at the top of their head, scientists now propose, that only later split in two. Charles Darwin fretted a lot about the exquisite complexity and sophistication of the vertebrate eye as he developed his theory of evolution. “The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder,” he confided to his friend, the American botanist Asa Gray, in 1860. Somehow evolution had produced the eye from many parts, such as the lens and retina, through tiny changes through the generations. Darwin couldn’t say for sure what that sequence of changes was. But he was encouraged by the diversity of simpler eyes among invertebrates. Some are mere lumps of pigment that detect light; others are simple cups lacking lenses. “When I think of the fine known gradations,” Darwin wrote to Gray, “my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.” Yet opponents of evolution continued to cast doubt on the idea that eyes could evolve. Even in the 1990s, creationists claimed that natural selection would need many billions of years to produce an eye — far more time than life has existed on Earth. Dan-E. Nilsson, a neurobiologist at Lund University in Sweden, grew so annoyed by these claims that he estimated how long it would actually take for a patch of light-sensitive cells to evolve into an image-forming eye. […] In 1994 he and Susanne Pelger, a colleague at Lund, concluded that an image-forming eye could evolve in just a few hundred thousand years. […] The model only addressed how the shape of eyes evolved. In actuality, many other changes occurred along the way. New proteins had to emerge that could bend light in the lens, for example, while others absorbed light in the retina. In 1994, scientists didn’t know enough about those microscopic details to develop a hypothesis for how they evolved as well. Three decades later, that’s no longer the case. “There’s lots of molecular data now that we can use that is extremely powerful,” Dr. Nilsson said. He and other vision experts have now joined forces to develop a hypothesis for how vertebrate eyes evolved. […] They and their colleagues unveiled their detailed scenario for the evolution of vertebrate eyes on Monday in the journal Current Biology.
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derogatoryA person with only one working eye.
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyAny copepod in the genus Cyclops.
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hobbieshorologylifestyleA small magnifying lens in the crystal of a watch to aid in reading the date.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。