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单词 Flying Dutchman
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Flying Dutchman
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Flying Dutchman: Flying Dutchmen
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By December, the Weatherbird II had become a modern Flying Dutchman, homeless until the ship’s crew promised to suspend operations and docked in Madeira.
Slate(Nov 16, 2016)
He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22(1961)
“What’s Opera, Doc?” features a mélange of Wagner music from the Ring, “Tannhäuser” and “The Flying Dutchman.”
Wall Street Journal(May 20, 2016)
1n a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope
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apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow
something existing in perception only
2n the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day
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apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre
a ghostly appearing figure
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