c. 1600, "Odyssey," from Latin Odyssea, from Greek Odysseia, name of the Homeric epic poem of ancient Greece, relating the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the Trojan War. Figurative sense of "long, adventurous journey" is first recorded 1889.
雙語例句
1. The Odyssey tells what happened to the Greek heroes after the sack of Troy.
《奧德賽》講述的是在特洛伊被洗劫一空之后發(fā)生在希臘英雄們身上的故事。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Note how Telemachus in the Odyssey silences his mother.
只要讀一下《奧德賽》,就可以看到特里曼珠是怎樣打斷他母親的話并要求她緘默.
來自英漢非文學 - 家庭、私有制和國家的起源
3. The march to Travnik was the final stretch of a 16-hour odyssey.
去特拉夫尼克的這段路是長達16小時艱險旅行的最后一程。
來自辭典例句
4. His odyssey of passion, friendship, love, and revenge was now finished.
他的熱情 、 友誼 、 愛情和復仇的漫長歷程,到此結束了.
來自辭典例句
5. Odysseus's heroic exploits are celebrated in ` The Odyssey '.