英语词汇phoenix的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	phoenix
词源	phoenix. This fabulous bird of great beauty was said to live some 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, then burn itself on a funeral pyre and rise again from its ashes, becoming a symbol of immortality. It was named, indirectly, after the ancient Phoe- nicians, its color being purple-red, which the Greeks called phoenix because the Phoenicians had invented a dye of this color. See phoenix tree.
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