英语释义

• Roman author of an encylclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)

• Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)

片语

VILLA PLINY AT TOSCANE托斯卡那庄园

Gaius Pliny罗马博物学家普林尼

Letters of Pliny普林尼书信

Pliny the Younger Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)

同义词： Pliny Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Pliny Secundus由普林尼·塞坤杜斯

Younger Pliny小普林尼

Pliny the Elder Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)

同义词： Pliny Gaius Plinius Secundus

Vilia Pliny at Toscane托斯卡纳庄园

the Elder Pliny普林尼

英汉例句

• Back in the first century, AD, Pliny the Elder, a great Roman scholar, collected descriptions of creatures who lived at the very edge of the known world.

  早在公元一世纪，伟大的罗马学者老普林尼，收集了当时已知的，所谓在世界边缘生活的各种生物的图形。

• We don「t know if Pliny or Pompey or some later person was skeptical of this as effective protection against poison.

  我们不知道普林尼、庞培或是其他人对解药的有效性产生过怀疑。

• Since the question does not arise, I prefer not to answer it. All the same, I should very much have liked to be Pliny the Younger.

  这问题语意不明，我宁愿不回答它。但一如既往的，我非常希望成为小普里尼。

• It was clear from the accounts of the historian Pliny (23-79 A. D.) that the Romans also possessed burning-glasses.

  从历史学家普林尼(公元23- 79年)的记述中清楚知道罗马人也有点火镜。

• In recording the horror of the event, Pliny the Younger, a Roman author, left behind this record that still benefits historians and scientists today.

  记录下这次事件恐怖面貌的罗马作家小普林尼，遗留给世人的这份纪录，至今仍嘉惠着历史学家和科学家。

• In Pliny their activity is limited to the practice of medicine and sorcery.

  在普林尼的着作里面，他们的活动仅局限于医药和巫术的实践。

• Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable steers us back to Latin in explaining that Pliny thought hyenas had a kind of stone in their eye, that if you put under your tongue gave the gift of prophecy.

  《布留沃成语和寓言词典》把我们的视线拉回到拉丁语世界，它写道，古罗马作家普林尼认为，鬣狗的眼睛里有某种石头，若把它压在舌头下，你就能预知未来。

• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read. - Pliny the Elder.

  真正的荣耀在于做值得写的；写值得看的。-老普林尼。

• Pliny described a cloud coming down the mountain, blocking out the sun and burying everything in its path, including whole villages and towns.

  普利尼描述道，当时一团云自山巅而降，遮天蔽日，将所经之处的一切，包括一座座村庄和城镇统统吞没。

• In the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder wrote of using sea urchin ashes to treat baldness.

  公元一世纪，老普林尼曾写过把海胆烧成灰烬治疗来秃头。

• Pliny called it 「the largest in the whole of history,」 a 「remarkable and truly unique work of nature」 worth 10 million sesterces.

  据老普林尼说，那颗珍珠是史上最大的珍珠，是自然的神来之笔，价值达1000万塞斯·特斯。

• The odor of wild thyme, Pliny tells us, drives away snakes. Dionysius of Syracuse, on the other hand, thinks it an aphrodisiac.

  普林尼告诉世人野生百里香的气味可以驱蛇，古代叙拉古王朝的暴君戴奥尼索司叙拉古却认为它是壮阳药。

• The story comes from Pliny the Elder almost 2, 000 years ago.

  这个故事被2000年前的老普林尼记下。

• Pliny described a cloud coming down the mountain, blocking out the sun and burying everything in its path, including whole villages and towns.

  普利尼描述到，一团云自山巅而降，遮天蔽日，将所经之处的一切，包括一座座山村和城镇统统吞没。

• As early as the first century AD , Pliny the Elder wrote that the sap of a tithymalus plant could be used to render a message invisible to prying eyes.

  早在公元一世纪，罗马学者老普林尼写道：「用大戟树汁书写，字迹可以隐形。」

• This particularly sad event left a deep impression on Pliny who had lost an uncle in the eruption.

  这个尤为悲哀的事件给在火山爆发中失去叔叔的普利尼留下了深刻的印象。

• Pliny also described how he was able to make practical use of bioluminescence: a walking stick dipped in the glowing slime of a jellyfish, he observed, 「will light the way like a torch」.

  老普林尼甚至还描绘了这种生物荧光的应用：将手仗放入这些水母做成的黏液中进行浸泡，这样就可以制作一个火把。

• The tragedy had left a deep impression on Pliny who had lost an uncle in the event.

  灾难给普利尼留下了难以磨灭的印象，他叔叔在灾难中丧生。

• D., Pliny the Elder wrote of using sea urchin ashes to treat baldness.

  公元一世纪，老普林尼曾写过把海胆烧成灰烬治疗来秃头。

• In the two thousand years since Pliny most of Nicander」s writings have been lost but what he evidently said about magnets relates to the etymology of the word.

  从pliny时代往后的大约两千年里，Nicander的着作多以失散，但是他关于磁铁的说法已经明显涉及到了这个词的词源。

• First mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Chioggia developed as a fishing and lacemaking town and is today connected by a causeway to the Italian mainland.

  老普林尼（PlinytheElder）首先提到，基奥佐作为渔业和鞋带制造业城镇发展起来的，而现在由一条堤道连接到意大利主道。