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"Greek literature" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
希腊文 希臘文 xī là wén Greek literature
Chinese Pinyin Translation
部 bù ministry / department / section / part / division / troops / board / classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc syn
修女 xiū nǚ nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)
品味 pǐn wèi to sample / to taste / to appreciate / one's taste (i.e. in music, literature, fashion, food and drink etc) / good taste syn
笔记 筆記 bǐ jì to take down (in writing) / notes / a type of literature consisting mainly of short sketches / CL:本[ben3] syn
文学 文學 wén xué literature / CL:種|种[zhong3] syn
塑造 sù zào to model / to mold / (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc) / (fig.) (literature) to portray (in words) syn
遗书 遺書 yí shū posthumous writing / testament / suicide note / ancient literature syn
素材 sù cái source material (in literature and art) syn
一窍不通 一竅不通 yī qiào bù tōng lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head) / I don't understand a word (idiom) / it's all Greek to me syn
阿尔法 阿爾法 ā ěr fǎ alpha (Greek letter Αα)
格调 格調 gé diào style (of art or literature) / form / one's work style / moral character syn
苏格拉底 蘇格拉底 sū gé lā dǐ Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher / José Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011)
柏拉图 柏拉圖 bó lā tú Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher
泰坦 tài tǎn Titan (race of deities in Greek mythology, moon of Saturn etc)
大力神 dà lì shén Heracles (Greek mythology) / Hercules (Roman mythology)
普罗米修斯 普羅米修斯 pǔ luó mǐ xiū sī Prometheus, a Titan god of fire in Greek mythology
江南 jiāng nán south of Changjiang or Yangtze river / south of the lower reaches of Changjiang / often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces / a province during Qing times / in literature, refers to the sunny south / Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
文艺 文藝 wén yì literature and art syn
文摘 wén zhāi digest (of literature) / to make a digest (of data) / summary
典故 diǎn gù classical story or quote from the literature / the story behind sth syn
语文 語文 yǔ wén literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)
亚里士多德 亞里士多德 yà lǐ shì duō dé Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
阿瑞斯 ā ruì sī Ares, Greek god of war / Mars
花木兰 花木蘭 huā mù lán Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature
盲文 máng wén braille / literature in braille syn
比亚 比亞 bǐ yà Bia, daughter of Pallas and Styx in Greek mythology, personification of violence
西格玛 西格瑪 xī gé mǎ sigma (Greek letter Σσ) / (symbol for standard deviation in statistics)
眼帘 眼簾 yǎn lián eyes (in literature) / eyesight syn
诗文 詩文 shī wén poetry and literature syn
巨匠 jù jiàng great master (of literature, music etc) syn
意识流 意識流 yì shí liú stream of consciousness (in literature)
扶桑 fú sāng Fusang, mythical island of ancient literature, often interpreted as Japan syn
汉文 漢文 hàn wén Chinese written language / Chinese literature esp. as taught abroad
阿特拉斯 ā tè lā sī Atlas (Titan in Greek mythology) / Atlas mountains of north Africa
古典文学 古典文學 gǔ diǎn wén xué classical literature
庶民 shù mín the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature) / plebeian syn
贝塔 貝塔 bèi tǎ beta (Greek letter Ββ)
伽马 伽馬 gā mǎ gamma (Greek letter Γγ) (loanword)
伊索 yī suǒ Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and storyteller, supposed author of Aesop's fables
文学史 文學史 wén xué shǐ history of literature
妄言 wàng yán lies / wild talk / to tell lies / to talk nonsense / fantasy (literature) syn
小将 小將 xiǎo jiàng (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc) syn
文史 wén shǐ literature and history
冷宫 冷宮 lěng gōng (in literature and opera) a place to which a monarch banishes a wife or concubine who falls from favor / (fig.) the doghouse / a state of disfavor
征文 徵文 zhēng wén to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event)
参考文献 參考文獻 cān kǎo wén xiàn cited material / reference (to the literature) / bibliography
文学作品 文學作品 wén xué zuò pǐn literature / writing / CL:部[bu4]
中国文学 中國文學 zhōng guó wén xué Chinese literature
脾胃 pí wèi spleen and stomach (digestive organs in TCM) / preferences / one's taste (e.g. in literature) syn
咱家 zá jiā I / me / my / (often used in early vernacular literature) syn
移情 yí qíng to redirect one's affections / (of literature etc) to cultivate people's character / empathy (i.e. attribution of feelings to an object) / transference (psychology)
语文老师 語文老師 yǔ wén lǎo shī language and literature teacher
海王 hǎi wáng Poseidon, Greek god of the sea / Neptune, Roman god of the sea / Aquaman, DC comic book superhero / (slang) womanizer / player
希腊神话 希臘神話 xī là shén huà Greek mythology
城邦 chéng bāng a city state (Greek polis)
体例 體例 tǐ lì style (of literature) / form
四大名著 sì dà míng zhù the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, namely: A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hong2 lou2 Meng4], Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], Water Margin 水滸傳|水浒传[Shui3 hu3 Zhuan4], Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]
泽塔 澤塔 zé tǎ zeta (Greek letter Ζζ)
缠绵悱恻 纏綿悱惻 chán mián fěi cè (of a person) sad beyond words (idiom) / (of music, literature etc) poignant / very sentimental syn
气韵 氣韻 qì yùn (of literature, art) distinct style / flavor / spirit / character syn
周作人 zhōu zuò rén Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
酒神 jiǔ shén Bacchus (the Greek god of wine), aka Dionysus
缪斯 繆斯 mù sī Muse (Greek mythology)
缪斯 繆斯 miù sī Muse (Greek mythology)
阿来 阿來 ā lái Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定[Chen2 ai1 luo4 ding4] "Red Poppies"
希腊语 希臘語 xī là yǔ Greek language
阿喀琉斯 ā kā liú sī Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
美杜莎 měi dù shā Medusa (monster of Greek mythology)
川端康成 chuān duān kāng chéng Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese literature Nobel laureate
派 pài (literary) tributary / branch of a river / clique / school / group / faction / (bound form) style / manner / to send (a person or resource) / to dispatch / to allocate (a resource or task) / to appoint (sb) / classifier for factions, groups etc / (preceded by 一[yi]) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc / (loanword) pi (Greek letter Ππ) / the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159... / (loanword) pie syn
套 tào to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ) syn
凯 凱 kǎi (bound form) triumphal music / (Tw) (coll.) generous with money / lavish in spending / chi (Greek letter Χχ) syn
纽 紐 niǔ to turn / to wrench / button / nu (Greek letter Νν) syn
潘 pān surname Pan / Pan, faun in Greek mythology, son of Hermes
柔 róu soft / flexible / supple / yielding / rho (Greek letter Ρρ) syn
苑 yuàn (literary) enclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc / imperial garden / park / (literary) center (of arts, literature etc) syn
斐 fěi phonetic fei or fi / (literary) (bound form) rich with literary elegance / phi (Greek letter Φφ)
谬 謬 miù (bound form) false / erroneous / absurd / mu (Greek letter Μμ) syn
韵事 韻事 yùn shì poetic occasion / elegant situation / in literature, the cue for a poem syn
桥段 橋段 qiáo duàn (cinema, literature etc) scene / trope / plot device / (songwriting) bridge
卡帕 kǎ pà kappa (Greek letter Κκ)
卡桑德拉 kǎ sāng dé lā Cassandra (given name) / Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)
卡珊德拉 kǎ shān dé lā Cassandra (given name) / Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)
巴克斯 bā kè sī Bacchus, Greek god of wine
托勒密 tuō lè mì Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC / Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成 / see also 托勒玫[Tuo1 le4 mei2]
艾塔 ài tǎ eta (Greek letter Ηη)
欧几里得 歐幾里得 ōu jǐ lǐ dé Euclid of Alexandria (c. 300 BC), Greek geometer and author of the Elements 幾何原本|几何原本[Ji3he2 Yuan2ben3]
普西 pǔ xī psi (Greek letter Ψψ)
埃斯库罗斯 埃斯庫羅斯 āi sī kù luó sī Aeschylus (c. 524 BC -c. 455 BC), Greek tragedian, author of The Persians, Seven against Thebes etc
比较文学 比較文學 bǐ jiào wén xué comparative literature
阿多尼斯 ā duō ní sī Adonis, figure in Greek mythology
伊萨卡 伊薩卡 yī sà kǎ Ithaca, a Greek island / Ithaca NY, location of Cornell University 康奈爾|康奈尔[Kang1 nai4 er3]
希波克拉底 xī bō kè lā dǐ Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine
波塞冬 bō sāi dōng Poseidon, God of the sea in Greek mythology
阿里斯托芬 ā lǐ sī tuō fēn Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright
三国演义 三國演義 sān guó yǎn yì Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中[Luo2 Guan4 zhong1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操[Cao2 Cao1] Wei 魏[Wei4] as villains
西游记 西遊記 xī yóu jì "Journey to the West", Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩|吴承恩[Wu2 Cheng2 en1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, also called "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey"
克罗诺斯 克羅諾斯 kè luó nuò sī Cronus (Titan of Greek mythology)
克西 kè xī xi or ksi (Greek letter Ξξ)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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