sphinxes
英 [ˈsfɪŋksɪz]
美 [ˈsfɪŋksɪz]
n. 斯芬克斯，狮身人面像(古埃及石像; 在希腊神话中，斯芬克斯说话惯用谜语)
sphinx的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 斯芬克斯，狮身人面像(古埃及人建造于金字塔旁的巨大雕像，神话中传说它会出谜语来为难人);神秘的人;令人困惑不解的人
The Sphinx is a large ancient statue of a creature with a human head and a lion's body that stands near the pyramids in Egypt. In mythology, sphinxes gave people puzzles to solve, and so a person who is mysterious or puzzling is sometimes referred to as a sphinx .- It suited him to play the sphinx.
让他演神秘莫测的人很合适。
- It suited him to play the sphinx.
双语例句
- And now came the hymns of priests, the dance of savages, accompanied by the noise of drums, and of the wooden tuba. Egypt's cloud-aspiring pyramids, overthrown pillars, and sphinxes sailed by.
高入云霄的埃及金字塔、倾颓的柱子和人面狮身雕像都一一从船只的旁边掠过去了。 - The distribution of the sphinxes ranges from 1-4 forest types and the population density for the species of wide range of ecological distribution is also high.
各种天蛾分布范围，有1至4个森林植被类型不等，凡生态分布宽的种类，其种群虫口数量亦大。