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Desdemona is the main woman in Shakespeare's play Othello. She is Othello's wife: open, loyal, and not guilty of the thing she is killed for. , Othello's enemy, tricks Othello into believing she has another man. She does not. Othello kills her. The name was built from Greek pieces meaning something like ill-fated or unlucky — which, though actually, fits the story in a dark way. You meet her in literature class, and in talk about jealousy and how a lie can destroy someone who has done nothing wrong. She is a character in a play, not a word you use for a type of person in daily life.
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組成A coined name from Ancient Greek dus- ('ill, bad') + daímōn ('spirit, fortune'), hence 'ill-fated, unlucky'.
原始詞典資料3 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。
Desdemonaname/ˌdɛzdəˈmoʊnə/
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Othello's wife in Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, noted for being a victim of jealousy.
- As I looked out of the corner of my eye at this savagely picturesque fellow, wondering where was his Desdemona, a dainty and remarkably pretty piece of femininity entered the car, advanced to our table and sat herself beside Othello.
- On the first of these days' amusements ( I know not what year ) Frank took offence at some attentions paid his Desdemona, and walked away next morning to London in wrath.
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astronomynatural-sciencesAn inner moon of the planet Uranus.
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astronomynatural-sciences666 Desdemona, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1908.
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。