nisus 的定义
plural ni·sus.
- an effort or striving toward a particular goal or attainment; impulse.
更多nisus例句
- Even before them the nisus towards it, which has been noticed in the chapter before the last, is observable enough.
- But mythology comes in and attributes them all to a nisus for self-preservation.
- The same thing happened to Nisus, king of Megara, which town was besieged by Minos.
- Nisus gets away first, and shoots out far in front of the throng, fleeter than the winds or the winged thunderbolt.
- Nisus betrayed to Minos by his daughter Scylla; changed to a falcon, and Scylla to a lark.