sphinx是什麼意思_音標_用法_例句

簡單釋義：

n. 斯芬克斯

網路 獅身人面像；斯芬克司；人面獅身像

變形：

複數：sphinxes  

完整釋義：

n.

1.獅身人面像
2.莫名其妙的事,謎似的人[物]
3.【希臘神話】斯芬克斯〔有翼的獅身女面怪物〕
4.【動物;動物學】天蛾;一種非洲狒狒
5.【古埃及】獅身人面[鷹頭,羊頭]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.
   瑞秋花一千美金買了一隻純種無毛的獅身人面貓，因為在她的幼年時代，她祖母家就有一隻這樣的貓。

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正傳》是關於我們中國人自己一個斯芬克斯式的謎，是魯迅「反省」文學的巔峰之作。

3. The Great Sphinx in Egypt might have originally had the face of a lion (see photo), a UK geologist claimed recently.
   英國地質學家近日表示，埃及斯芬克斯獅身人面像最初可能是一尊完整的獅子雕像（見圖）。

4. At present, the Egyptian scholar can't explain the Sphinx, just like the opinion of interpretation of the pyramid.
   目前，埃及學者對人面獅身像的解釋，就如同對金字塔的解釋一樣，眾說紛紜。

5. In Greek mythology, the Sphinx was a terrible monster with the body of a winged lion and the head of a woman.
   在古希臘神話里，斯芬克斯是一個獅身人面女怪，長著翅膀。

6. I feel like if I once turned loose people would begin to call Senator Beveridge the Grand Young Sphinx of the Wabash.
   我覺得，如果我滔滔不絕地講起來，人們就會把貝弗里奇參議員稱作沃巴什的偉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後，也建成了自己的金字塔，僅比其父親的矮上10英尺，同樣距離獅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.
   雷納根據其他部位上的藍色和黃色顏料痕迹，推斷獅身人面像曾經裝飾有漫畫書中那樣的絢麗色彩。