英语词汇“greek chorus”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Greek chorus n. transferred. Used in comparisons, etc., to indicate the wise, sympathetic comments or open wailing of the chorus in Attic tragedies (see chorus n. 1).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > personification of lamentation

Greek chorus1863

the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > sympathy > sympathetic person(s) > persons commenting sympathetically

Greek chorus1863

1863 F. Nightingale in C. Woodham-Smith F. Nightingale (1951) xvii. 291 She [sc. Queen Victoria] always reminds me of the woman in the Greek chorus..wailing out her inexpressible despair.

1893 E. F. Benson Dodo I. iii. 56 He had no desire to interrupt this rapid monologue of Dodo's. He was quite content to play the part of the Greek chorus.

1913 J. Vaizey College Girl xxiii. 319 Hannah, as Greek Chorus, interposed moral remarks.

1947 A. Huxley Let. 9 Mar. (1969) 568 I visualize him as a kind of philosophical recluse, who comments upon all that is happening from the vantage ground of eternity, and acts as a kind of Greek chorus.

1962 J. Braine Life at Top v. 78 ‘You show him, Killer. You show him.’ It was like a Greek chorus.

单词	greek chorus
释义	> as lemmas Greek chorus Greek chorus n. transferred. Used in comparisons, etc., to indicate the wise, sympathetic comments or open wailing of the chorus in Attic tragedies (see chorus n. 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > personification of lamentation Greek chorus1863 the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > sympathy > sympathetic person(s) > persons commenting sympathetically Greek chorus1863 1863 F. Nightingale in C. Woodham-Smith F. Nightingale (1951) xvii. 291 She [sc. Queen Victoria] always reminds me of the woman in the Greek chorus..wailing out her inexpressible despair. 1893 E. F. Benson Dodo I. iii. 56 He had no desire to interrupt this rapid monologue of Dodo's. He was quite content to play the part of the Greek chorus. 1913 J. Vaizey College Girl xxiii. 319 Hannah, as Greek Chorus, interposed moral remarks. 1947 A. Huxley Let. 9 Mar. (1969) 568 I visualize him as a kind of philosophical recluse, who comments upon all that is happening from the vantage ground of eternity, and acts as a kind of Greek chorus. 1962 J. Braine Life at Top v. 78 ‘You show him, Killer. You show him.’ It was like a Greek chorus. extracted from Greekadj. < as lemmas
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