Calypso
英 [k?'l?ps??]
美[k?'l?pso]
- n. 海中女神（荷馬《奧德賽》中人物）
暢通詞匯
中文詞源
calypso 海神，卡利普索民歌（流行于加勒比海地區(qū)）
1.希臘神話海神，來自PIE *kel, 隱藏，詞源同cell, hole. 參照電影《加勒比海盜》。
2.民歌，來自當(dāng)?shù)赝林Z言，拼寫受Calypso影響，最終趨同。
英文詞源
- Calypso
- sea nymph in the "Odyssey," literally "hidden, hider" (perhaps originally a death goddess) from Greek kalyptein "to cover, conceal," from PIE *kel- "to cover, conceal, save," root of English Hell (see cell). The type of West Indian song is so called from 1934, but the origin of the name is obscure.
雙語例句
- 1. Another perennial music favorite is calypso, which is also sung in the Caribbean island English dialect.
- 另一種長久以來受喜愛的音樂是以加勒比海島上的英語方言唱出的加力騷(千里達島上土人所演唱的歌曲).
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- 2. Trinidad's famed steel percussion orchestra was touring theand Calypso had and devoted following.
- 特立尼達著名的鋼鐵管弦樂隊已經(jīng)在環(huán)球表演,卡呂普索也已將它發(fā)揚光大.
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