英语词汇labyrinth的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

labyrinth. Though there were mazes before his, the Laby- rinth, “double-headed axe,” of Greek legend built by the artifi- cer Daedalus to confine the man-bull Minotaur may give us our word labyrinth. The only way out of this maze was through the help of a skein of thread. Later, the king of Crete impris- oned Daedalus and his son Icarus in the Labyrinth. Daedalus made wings for them and they escaped, but Icarus flew too close to the sun, melting the wax binding the feathers to his wings, and fell to his death. The story also gives us the words daedal, anything cleverly made, and daedalist, for an air pioneer.

词汇	labyrinth
词源	labyrinth. Though there were mazes before his, the Laby- rinth, “double-headed axe,” of Greek legend built by the artifi- cer Daedalus to confine the man-bull Minotaur may give us our word labyrinth. The only way out of this maze was through the help of a skein of thread. Later, the king of Crete impris- oned Daedalus and his son Icarus in the Labyrinth. Daedalus made wings for them and they escaped, but Icarus flew too close to the sun, melting the wax binding the feathers to his wings, and fell to his death. The story also gives us the words daedal, anything cleverly made, and daedalist, for an air pioneer.
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