- 1赫拉克勒斯（古希臘名 Heracles／Herakles；羅馬名 Hercules。臺灣也寫海克力斯，但那也是燕麥品牌名）
In old Roman stories, Hercules is a hero famous for huge strength. The tales say the gods made him do twelve almost impossible jobs — killing a lion with his hands, cleaning vast dirty stables, dangerous animals, and so on. People call those jobs the Labours of Hercules. The Greeks told the same stories first, but they called him (Heracles in English spelling). Hercules is the Roman name, and it is the one English mostly uses. Though actually, he is not just “a strong man” in the old stories: he is hot-tempered, he suffers, and some of the labours are clever as much as they are muscular. In later English, people stretch the name. They may call a very strong man a Hercules, and they talk about a task when a job feels almost too hard. Everyday talk uses that adjective more than the name itself. The word is a name, so it stays capitalised when you mean the hero.
組成From Latin Herculēs, from Etruscan hercle, from Ancient Greek Ἡρακλῆς (Hēraklês). The Greek name is often tied to Hera (the goddess) and kléos (glory); one scholarly view traces the first piece further back to a very old word for year or season. Scholars do not all agree on the exact pieces.
同家族的字
- Herculeanadjective from the name: a Herculean task is one as hard as his Labours
- Heraclesthe usual English spelling of his Greek name, Herakles — the same hero, not a different man
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Herculesname/ˈhɜːkjəliːz/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his twelve labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.
- THere were many Hercules'''’s, but (as Tully ſays, de Nat. Deor. lib. 3.) the famous Actions of them all are aſcrib’d to him who was the Son of Jupiter, by Alcmena, the Wife of Amphitryo King of Thebes.
- THere were many Hercules'''’s amongſt the Antients; Varro enumerates Forty four. The moſt famous were, Hercules Marguſanus, Hercules Ogmius, who was the Symbol of Eloquence amongſt the Gauls; Hercules Pollens, Hercules Thebanus, firſt called Alcides, Hercules' Tyrius, or Egyptian; and there were two of them; the Elder called Melicarthus, or Eſau, the Founder of the City of Tyre; and the Younger, who Subdu’d Geryon, and was Worſhipped in Sidon in Spain.
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astronomynatural-sciencesA summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero, lying between the constellations Lyra and Corona Borealis.
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astronomynatural-sciencesA crater in the first quadrant on the moon.
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rareA male given name from Ancient Greek.
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A city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
Herculesnoun/ˈhɜːkjəliːz/
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A Hercules beetle.
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A man with Herculean attributes.
- For the immaculate gentleman her cries had lured to what was to have been his death had been suddenly metamorphosed into a demon of revenge. Instead of soft muscles and a weak resistance, she was looking upon a veritable Hercules gone mad.
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