idol

英 ['a?d(?)l] 美['a?dl]

近義詞God

CET6+TEM4GRE低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?idols;

idol 偶像，神像

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)idolum,形象，影象，神像，詞源同idea,想象，想出來(lái)的想法。引申詞義偶像。

idol: idol: [13] Greek eidos meant ‘form, shape’ (it came from the same root as idéā, source of English idea). From it was derived eídōlon, which originally meant ‘a(chǎn)ppearance’, and in particular ‘a(chǎn)pparition, phantom’. It developed from there to ‘image’, either a ‘mental image’ or a ‘physical image’, such as a ‘statue’; and in the early Christian era it and its Latin descendant īdōlum were used for an ‘image of a false god’.

English acquired the word via Old French idole or idele. Another English offspring of Greek eidos, in the sense ‘picture’, is idyll [17], which was borrowed from the diminutive form eidúllion ‘little picture’, hence ‘small descriptive poem’.
=> idea, idyll
idol (n.): mid-13c., "image of a deity as an object of (pagan) worship," from Old French idole "idol, graven image, pagan god," from Late Latin idolum "image (mental or physical), form," used in Church Latin for "false god," from Greek eidolon "appearance, reflection in water or a mirror," later "mental image, apparition, phantom," also "material image, statue," from eidos "form" (see -oid). Figurative sense of "something idolized" is first recorded 1560s (in Middle English the figurative sense was "someone who is false or untrustworthy"). Meaning "a person so adored" is from 1590s.

1. He looks more like a stockbroker than a teen idol.: 他看起來(lái)不像是青少年偶像，而更像個(gè)股票經(jīng)紀(jì)人。

3. By this time Pitt had become a teenage idol.: 皮特此時(shí)已經(jīng)成為青少年崇拜的偶像了.

4. Blind worship of this idol must be ended.: 對(duì)這個(gè)偶像的盲目崇拜應(yīng)該結(jié)束了.

5. Functionally, forced IDOL expression markedly reduces LDLR expression, resulting in increased plasma cholesterol.: 功能, 誘導(dǎo)IDOL表達(dá)功能性地降低低密度脂蛋白受體的表達(dá), 從而增加血漿膽固醇水平.