sphinx是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

n. 斯芬克斯

网络 狮身人面像；斯芬克司；人面狮身像

变形：

复数：sphinxes  

完整释义：

n.

1.狮身人面像
2.莫名其妙的事,谜似的人[物]
3.【希腊神话】斯芬克斯〔有翼的狮身女面怪物〕
4.【动物;动物学】天蛾;一种非洲狒狒
5.【古埃及】狮身人面[鹰头,羊头]巨像

例句：

1. Rachel spends a thousand dollars on a pure-bred, hairless Sphinx cat, like the one her grandmother had when Rachel was a kid.
   瑞秋花一千美金买了一只纯种无毛的狮身人面猫，因为在她的幼年时代，她祖母家就有一只这样的猫。

2. As the greatest masterpiece of Lu Xun's "self-examining" literature, The True Story of Ah Q is a Sphinx's riddle to us Chinese ourselves.
   《阿Q正传》是关于我们中国人自己一个斯芬克斯式的谜，是鲁迅“反省”文学的巅峰之作。

3. The Great Sphinx in Egypt might have originally had the face of a lion (see photo), a UK geologist claimed recently.
   英国地质学家近日表示，埃及斯芬克斯狮身人面像最初可能是一尊完整的狮子雕像（见图）。

4. At present, the Egyptian scholar can't explain the Sphinx, just like the opinion of interpretation of the pyramid.
   目前，埃及学者对人面狮身像的解释，就如同对金字塔的解释一样，众说纷纭。

5. In Greek mythology, the Sphinx was a terrible monster with the body of a winged lion and the head of a woman.
   在古希腊神话里，斯芬克斯是一个狮身人面女怪，长着翅膀。

6. I feel like if I once turned loose people would begin to call Senator Beveridge the Grand Young Sphinx of the Wabash.
   我觉得，如果我滔滔不绝地讲起来，人们就会把贝弗里奇参议员称作沃巴什的伟大的小斯芬克斯石像。

7. Khafre, following a tough act, constructed his own pyramid, ten feet shorter than his father's, also a quarter of a mile behind the Sphinx.
   哈夫拉在一番努力之后，也建成了自己的金字塔，仅比其父亲的矮上10英尺，同样距离狮身人面像四分之一英里。

8. Traces of blue and yellow paint elsewhere suggest to Lehner that the Sphinx was once decked out in gaudy comic book colors.
   雷纳根据其他部位上的蓝色和黄色颜料痕迹，推断狮身人面像曾经装饰有漫画书中那样的绚丽色彩。