phoenix
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT A phoenix is an imaginary bird that, according to ancient stories, burns itself to ashes every five hundred years and is then born again. 鳳凰[usu sing]
2. N-SING If you describe someone or something as a phoenix, you mean that they return again after seeming to disappear or be destroyed. 失而復(fù)現(xiàn)或毀而再生者[文學(xué)性]
Out of the ashes of the economic shambles, a phoenix of recovery can arise. 復(fù)蘇之鳳會(huì)從經(jīng)濟(jì)廢墟的灰燼中騰飛而起。
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phoenix /?fi?n?ks/ (phoenixes)
劍橋詞典
- in ancient stories , an imaginary bird that set fire to itself every 500 years and was born again, rising from its ashes (= the powder left after its body has been burned )
不死鳥,鳳凰(古代傳說(shuō)中的一種假想鳥,每500年自焚后重生)
The town was bombed but was then rebuilt and rose from the ashes like a/the phoenix (= was just as good as before). 飽受轟炸的城鎮(zhèn)得到了重建,就像鳳凰涅槃重生一樣。 返回 phoenix