Siren
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- n.汽笛, 警报器
- [英] n.汽笛, 警报器 ( a device for producing a penetrating warning sound)
- [记] 原指希腊神话中半人半鸟的女海妖, 以美妙歌声迷住海员, 使船只触礁沉没
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I. noun
- Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French sereine, from Late Latin sirena, from Latin siren, from Greek seirēn
- Date: 14th century
- 1. often capitalized any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing
- 2.
- a. a woman who sings with enchanting sweetness
- b. temptress
- c. temptation 2
- 3.
- a. an apparatus producing musical tones especially in acoustical studies by the rapid interruption of a current of air, steam, or fluid by a perforated rotating disk
- b. a device often electrically operated for producing a penetrating warning sound <an ambulance siren><an air-raid siren>
- 4. \[New Latin, from Latin\] either of two North American eel-shaped amphibians that constitute a genus (Siren) and have small forelimbs but neither hind legs nor pelvis and have permanent external gills as well as lungs
II. adjective
- Date: 1568
- resembling that of a siren ; enticing