英语词汇promethean的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	promethean
词源	Promethean. Anyone resembling Prometheus in spirit or action, or anyone creative or boldly inventive can be called Promethean. Prometheus of Greek mythology was put to work by Zeus to create men from mud and water. But Pro- metheus stole Olympian fire for his miserable creations and an angry Zeus chained him to a rock in the Caucasus, expos- ing him to the fierce vultures there, until Hercules released him.
随便看	as cold as charity ascot as deaf as the mainmast as different as chalk and cheese as drunk as david-s sow as easy as shaking the drops off your john a serpent in one-s bosom as every schoolboy knows a shag on a rock ashes a shrimp short of a barbie asiatic hordes ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country a slice off the old ham as long as grass grows and water runs as mad as ajax as maine goes so goes the nation a small cup of tea as much chance as a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest as one man a son of a bitch-s son of a bitch a sorry sight asparagus

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