| 单词 | Sphinx |
| 释义 | Sphinx(sfɪŋks) noun the Sphinx 1. Greek mythology a monster with a woman's head and a lion's body. She lay outside Thebes, asking travellers a riddle and killing them when they failed to answer it. Oedipus answered the riddle and the Sphinx then killed herself 2. the huge statue of a sphinx near the pyramids at ElGîza in Egypt, of which the head is a carved portrait of the fourth-dynasty Pharaoh, Chephrēn Word origin C16: via Latin from Greek, apparently from sphingein to hold fastsphinx(sfɪŋks) nounWord forms: plural sphinxes or sphinges (ˈsfɪndʒiːz) 1. any of a number of huge stone statues built by the ancient Egyptians, having the body of a lion and the head of a man 2. an inscrutable person |
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