| 词汇 | satyr |
| 词源 | satyr. Alexander the Great had a dream about this word at the time when he was trying in vain to capture the city of Tyre and was about to abandon his campaign. Alexander dreamed he had captured a satyr. His advisers told him that the word sa- tyros (satyr in Greek) in his dream was really Sa Tyros, “Tyre is his!” and he attacked and captured the city. In any case, our word satyr derives from the Greek word for the mythical wood- land gods or demons who were the companions of Bacchus. First recorded in English by Chaucer, satyr came to mean a las- civious man. Satyress is a little-used word for “a female satyr,” first recorded in 1840. |
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