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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.
Homeric means “of Homer” or “like Homer”Homeric的意思是「荷馬的」或「像荷馬一樣的」 Homer is the Greek poet we usually place around 800 to 700 BCHomer（荷馬）是我們通常認為活在西元前800到700年左右的希臘詩人 the name tied to two huge story-poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey這個名字跟兩部巨大的敘事詩有關，也就是《伊利亞德》和《奧德賽》 Achilles, Odysseus, and the Greek war against Troy阿基里斯、奧德修斯，以及希臘對特洛伊的戰爭 Those poems have shaped a great deal of later European writing這些詩篇塑造了後來大量的歐洲文學
Though actually, nobody can prove one man sat down and wrote both; some scholars think many singers built the stories over a long time.
Though actually不過其實 nobody can prove one man sat down and wrote both沒有人能證明是同一個人坐下來寫出這兩部作品 some scholars think many singers built the stories over a long time有些學者認為是許多吟遊詩人在長時間裡逐漸建構出這些故事
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.
People also stretch Homeric to mean epic and huge人們也會把Homeric延伸來指史詩般、巨大 in that old, grand style帶著那種古老宏偉的風格 a Homeric journey, Homeric angera Homeric journey（史詩般的旅程）、Homeric anger（驚人的怒火） That stretch lives in newspapers and books這種延伸用法常見於報紙和書籍裡 It is a bookish adjective這是個書面用的形容詞 not the poet's first name不是那位詩人的名字
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，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。
Homericadj/həʊˈmɛɹɪk/
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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.
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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.
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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.
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。