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An ancient Greek , roughly 480–406 BC, one of the three great writers of tragedy along with and Sophocles. Nineteen of his plays survive — far more than either of the others — including Medea, The Bacchae, The Women and Electra, and they are still and still studied everywhere.
An ancient Greek playwright他是古希臘劇作家 roughly 480–406 BC大約活在公元前480到406年 one of the three great writers of Athenian tragedy是雅典悲劇三大作家之一 along with Aeschylus and Sophocles另外兩位是Aeschylus埃斯庫羅斯和Sophocles索福克里斯 Nineteen of his plays survive他有十九部劇作流傳至今 far more than either of the others比另外兩人都多得多 including Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women and Electra包括《美狄亞》《酒神的女信徒》《特洛伊婦女》和《伊蕾克特拉》 and they are still staged and still studied everywhere而且到現在世界各地依然在上演、在研究
What makes him worth a line in a student's notebook is what kind of writer he was. Where earlier tragedy dealt in heroes and gods, Euripides put ordinary, damaged, furious people on stage: women pushed past what they could bear, , refugees, characters who question the gods openly.
What makes him worth a line in a student's notebook他值得被寫進學生筆記本的原因 is就在於 what kind of writer he was他是個什麼樣的作家 Where earlier tragedy dealt in heroes and gods早期的悲劇處理的是英雄和神 Euripides歐里庇得斯 put ordinary, damaged, furious people on stage卻把平凡、受過傷、憤怒的人放上舞台 women pushed past what they could bear被逼到極限的女性 slaves奴隸 refugees難民 characters who question the gods openly還有公開質疑神明的角色
Audiences of his own time found him uncomfortable and he won few prizes; later ages have often thought him the most modern of the three.
Audiences of his own time當時的觀眾 found him uncomfortable覺得他讓人不太舒服 and he won few prizes而且他得的獎不多 later ages但後世 have often thought him the most modern of the three常常認為他是三人裡最有現代感的一位
In English you meet the name in literature and history classes, and as a byword for a certain kind of dark, psychological drama. Pronounce it yoo-RIP-i-deez — four , stress on RIP, and the ending is 'deez', not 'dess'.
In English在英文裡 you meet the name你會在 in literature and history classes文學和歷史課上遇到這個名字 and as a byword也會把它當成 for a certain kind of dark, psychological drama某種黑暗、心理層面戲劇的代名詞 Pronounce it yoo-RIP-i-deez發音是yoo-RIP-i-deez — four syllables四個音節 stress on RIP重音在RIP上 and the ending is 'deez', not 'dess'結尾念'deez'，不是'dess'
組成From Greek Eurīpídēs. The -idēs ending in Greek names generally marks descent — 'son of' — and the name is usually connected to the Euripus, the strait between Euboea and the Greek mainland, near which he was said to have been born. Beyond that I would not push it.
原始詞典資料2 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。
Euripidesname/jʊˈɹɪp.ɪˌdiz/
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A Greek tragedian (c. 480–406 B.C.E.); Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens.
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A male given name from Ancient Greek, mostly representing a transliteration of the modern Greek Ευριπίδης (Evripídis).
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。