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satyr

/sey-ter, sat-er/US // ˈseɪ tər, ˈsæt ər //UK // (ˈsætə) //

沙特人,萨蒂尔,萨特尔,萨特

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
    • : a lascivious man; lecher.
    • : a man who has satyriasis.
    • : Also sa·tyr·id [sey-ter-id, sat-er-, suh-tahy-rid]. /ˈseɪ tər ɪd, ˈsæt ər-, səˈtaɪ rɪd/. Also called satyr butterfly. any of several butterflies of the family Satyridae, having gray or brown wings marked with eyespots.

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Examples

  • In excusing the Freedom of your Satyr, you urge that it galls no body, because nobody minds it enough to be mended by it.

  • He seemed rather surprised—indeed a trifle hurt—that neither of us called him a Satyr.

  • He exclaimed, "All is lost if my Satyr and Cupid are not saved!"

  • Compared with this lordly poem, the erotic novel of the day, with its prurient platitudes, is as a satyr to Hyperion.

  • He began, when a child, a copy of a mutilated Satyr's head, and finished in his model what was wanting in the original.