lesbos

/lez-bos, -bohs; Greek les-vaws/US // ˈlɛz bɒs, -boʊs; Greek ˈlɛs vɔs //UK // (ˈlɛzbɒs) //

里斯伯斯,里斯博斯,里斯托斯,里斯伯

Definitions

n.名词 noun

Certain authors wander into far-away countries for their subjects: to Sodom and Lesbos.
Theophrastus, of Lesbos, was a fullers son, and wrote a book on plants.
Next we pass the ancient island of Lesbos, one of the most beautiful in the Ægean Sea.
She also got possession of several islands; and among others, of Lesbos and Samothracia, in which last she founded an asylum.
And when the Persians succeeded, it is not credible, that they should apply to an oracle at Lesbos, or to an oracle of Greece.