3325英語網(wǎng) 單詞
Xanthippe的意思
Xanthippe
英 [z?n'θipi; -'ti-]
美
- n. 悍婦；潑婦（等于Xantippe）；粘西比（蘇格拉底的妻子）
英文詞源
- Xanthippe
- also (incorrectly) Xantippe, late 16c., spouse of Socrates (5c. B.C.E.), the prototype of the quarrelsome, nagging wife. The name is related to the masc. proper name Xanthippos, a compound of xanthos "yellow" (see xantho-) + hippos "horse" (see equine).
雙語例句
- 1. His wife is the worst and most insupportable wife since Xanthippe.
- 他的妻子是自贊蒂普以來最壞、最無法相處的妻子.
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