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标 题: [转载] A.Word.A.Day--morpheus
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Thu May 18 21:43:29 2000), 转信
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Morpheus (MOR-fee-uhs, -fyoos), noun
1. A son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
2. In the arms of Morpheus: asleep.
[Middle English from Latin from Greek morphe + Latin -eus; coined by Ovid,
with allusion to the forms seen in dreams.]
"Let for the people be the first to admit a certain familiarity with
sleepless nights and an envy of those who claim to fall into the arms of
Morpheus the moment their head touches a pillow. But sleepless or
sleep-short nights are one thing; sleepless decades are something else
entirely. Decades? Yes. Nguyen Thi Tu, an elderly Vietnamese lady who
lives in the southern province of Ca Mau, claims that she hasn't slept
a single wink since 1967."
Stephen Goode, A woman who never dreams or sleeps a wink, Insight on the
News, Nov 22, 1999.
This week's theme: words and phrases from classical mythology.
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