| 词汇 | adonis |
| 词源 | Adonis. During the Adonia, an annual feast held in Greece, women wept eight days over Adonis’s death, finally rejoicing in his resurrection. In classic mythology Adonis was the hand- some lover of Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, and thus any man called an Adonis is among the most handsome of men. |
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