| 单词 | pandora |
| 释义 | Pandora (pændɔːrə) See open Pandora's box Pandora in British English (pænˈdɔːrə) or Pandore (pænˈdɔː, ˈpændɔː) noun Greek mythology the first woman, made out of earth as the gods' revenge on man for obtaining fire from Prometheus. Given a box (Pandora's box) that she was forbidden to open, she disobeyed out of curiosity and released from it all the ills that beset humankind, leaving only hope within Word origin from Greek, literally: all-giftedpandora in British English (pænˈdɔːrə) noun 1. a handsome red sea bream, Pagellus erythrinus, of European coastal waters, caught for food in the Mediterranean 2. a marine bivalve mollusc of the genus Pandora that lives on the surface of sandy shores and has thin equal valves Word origin after PandoraPandora in American English (pænˈdɔrə) noun Greek Mythology the first mortal woman: out of curiosity she opens a box, letting out all human ills into the world (or, in a later version, letting all human blessings escape and be lost, leaving only hope) Word origin L < Gr Pandōra < pan, all (see pan-) + dōron, a gift: see UNRESOLVED CROSS REFpandora in American English (pænˈdɔrə) noun bandore : also panˈdore (pænˈdɔr) Word origin It < LL pandura: see bandoreWord lists with Types of fish, Characters in classical mythology |
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