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arete

/ahr-i-tey/US // ˌɑr ɪˈteɪ //UK // (əˈreɪt, əˈrɛt) //

场地,场地面积,场地和设施

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character: Our greatest national heroes not only did extraordinary things, but had enormous arete.

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Examples

  • Only after Calypso is put aside, do Arete the wife and Nausicaa the maid become possible.

  • From the grot of Calypso he passes to the home of Arete; both woman and man are in an ethical relation.

  • Still she withholds her sympathy at first for a good reason; Arete is not wholly impulse and feeling, she has thought, reflection.

  • Pallas and Nausicaa, he first goes to Arete and clasps her knees in supplication, begging for an escort to his country.

  • Altogether too sudden; Arete would not have said that, though the woman be the natural match-maker.