- 1荷馬的；荷馬式的（史詩般、氣勢很大）
Homeric means “of Homer” or “like Homer”. Homer is the Greek poet we usually place around 800 to 700 BC, the name tied to two huge story-poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey — Achilles, , and the Greek war against Troy. Those poems have shaped a great deal of later European writing. Though actually, nobody can prove one man sat down and wrote both; some scholars think many singers built the stories over a long time. People also stretch Homeric to mean epic and huge, in that old, grand style: a Homeric journey, Homeric anger. That stretch lives in newspapers and books. It is a adjective, not the poet’s first name.
組成Homer + -ic. From Latin homēricus, from Greek Homērikós, from Hómēros (Homer). The name may come from a Greek word for “hostage”, perhaps a nickname, but that is only a possibility. -ic means “of / in the manner of”.
同家族的字
- Homerthe poet this adjective points to
原始詞典資料4 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。
Homericadj/həʊˈmɛɹɪk/
- 1
Resembling or relating to the epic poetry of Homer.
- The warmeſt admirers of the great Mantuan poet [Virgil] can extol him for little more than the ſkill with which he has, by making his hero both a traveller and a warrior, united the beauties of the Iliad and the Odyſſey in one compoſition: yet his judgment was perhaps ſometimes overborne, by his avarice of the Homeric treaſures; and, for fear of ſuffering a ſparkling ornament to be loſt, he has inſerted it where it cannot ſhine with its original ſplendor.
- In the beginning of the Fourth Book the poet [John Milton] introduces an Homerick cluster of similes; which seems to mark an intention of bestowing more poetical decoration on the conclusion of the Poem, than on the preceding parts of it.
- 2
Of or pertaining to Greece during the Bronze Age, as described in Homer's works.
- Women are often carried away by force; and the whole tribe, as in Homeric times, rise to avenge the wrong.
- 3
Fit to be immortalized in poetry by Homer; epic, heroic.
- At home he [John Ruskin] looks young & rompish at the meeting, at Hunts meeting he looked old & ungainly, but his power & eloquence as a speaker were homeric.
- In San Francisco there was a barroom for every one hundred inhabitants. Here beer and bourbon fought a homeric battle for the hearts and throats of the thin line of patriots who balanced on the city's brass rails and voluntarily gave the national debt a lift.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。