circe meaning in English
n.
【希腊神话】女妖锡西〔荷马史诗《奥德赛》中把人变成猪的妖妇〕；妖媚的女人。
Examples
- In the greed story , circe turned men into pigs by her enchantment
在希腊故事中，赛丝用她的妖术把人变成猪。 - He felt a loathing for them such as circe must have felt for her swine
他厌恶这群人，女巫喀耳刻也一定像他一样厌恶着她那群猪的。 - Hermes saved odysseus from both calypso and circe , by convincing the first to let odysseus go and then protecting him from the latter by bestowing upon him an herb that would protect him from circe ' s spell
赫密士从海中女神和瑟茜手上救了奥德修斯，通过取得信服而让奥德修斯首先离去，然后就给他一些草药，保护他免受瑟茜的咒语伤害。 - " on my word , " said franz , " you are wise as nestor and prudent as ulysses , and your fair circe must be very skilful or very powerful if she succeed in changing you into a beast of any kind .
“凭良心说， ”弗兰兹说， “你真可谓聪明如涅斯托而慎重如尤利西斯了。你那位漂亮的塞茜要是想把你变成一只不论哪一种的走兽，她一定得非常机巧或非常神通广大才行。 ” - He descended , or rather seemed to descend , several steps , inhaling the fresh and balmy air , like that which may be supposed to reign around the grotto of circe , formed from such perfumes as set the mind a dreaming , and such fires as burn the very senses ; and he saw again all he had seen before his sleep , from sinbad , his singular host , to ali , the mute attendant ; then all seemed to fade away and become confused before his eyes , like the last shadows of the magic lantern before it is extinguished , and he was again in the chamber of statues , lighted only by one of those pale and antique lamps which watch in the dead of the night over the sleep of pleasure
他向下走了几步，或说得更确切些，是觉得向下走了几步，一边走，一边吸着清新芳香的空气，好似到了那香得令人心醉暖得令人神迷的塞茜的魔窟里一样，他又看到了睡觉以前所见的一切，从辛巴德他那古怪的东道主，到阿里那哑巴奴仆。然后一切似乎都在他的眼前渐渐地逝去了，渐渐地模糊了，象一盏昏黄的古色古香的油灯，只有这盏灯在夜的死一般的静寂里守护着人们的睡眠或安宁。