| 单词 | golem |
| 释义 | golem (once / 61559 pages) n A golem is a magical character in Jewish folklore, a clay figure that comes to life. The earliest history of Judaism includes the oldest-known stories about golems. In the Jewish holy book the Talmud, God's formation of Adam is described as the making of a golem, shaped from mud and dust. There are many more tales of golems in Judaism, and golems also appear in Polish folktales and even stories by the Brothers Grimm. Robots and automatons are sometimes described as golems, or machines made in the form of a human being. In Hebrew, golem means "shapeless mass" or "embryo." WORD FAMILYgolem: golems USAGE EXAMPLESFlipping now through our patchwork golem of a script, aghast, I estimate that 80 percent of what we performed actually appears in the original Company. Slate(Nov 25, 2016) Like any soulless golem, I love a good Jesus joke, but today even I can’t muster up the laughter. Slate(Nov 23, 2016) Another adaptation she wrote, the British horror-thriller “The Limehouse Golem,” recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and is awaiting a U.S. distributor. Los Angeles Times(Sep 30, 2016) 1n (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means Hyper mythical being an imaginary being of myth or fable 2n a mechanism that can move automatically Syn|Hypo|Hyper automaton, robot android, humanoid, mechanical man an automaton that resembles a human being mechanism device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function |
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