英语释义

• one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians

• an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret

片语

Sphinx Terrace观景台

Sphinx Riddle斯芬克斯之谜

the great sphinx（古埃及）狮身人面像

Sphinx Ting丁春诚

sphinx moths天蛾类

Papio sphinx彩面山魈

Sphinx observation史芬克斯

Egyptian sphinx埃及狮身人面像

英汉例句

• In Greek mythology, the Sphinx was a terrible monster with the body of a winged lion and the head of a woman.

  在古希腊神话里，斯芬克斯是一个狮身人面女怪，长着翅膀。

• "The Sphinx has thus emerged into the landscape out of shadows of what seemed to be an impenetrable oblivion, " the New York Times declared.

  「斯芬克斯从此从看似不可摧毁的遗忘阴影中解脱，成为了一处景观。」当时的《纽约时报》如此宣称。

• At a meeting with him at his office this past fall, he unrolled one of his countless maps of the Sphinx on a table.

  我去年秋天在他办公室拜见雷纳时，他在桌子上摊开了无数狮身人面像地图中的一幅。

• The Great Sphinx in Egypt might have originally had the face of a lion (see photo), a UK geologist claimed recently.

  英国地质学家近日表示，埃及斯芬克斯狮身人面像最初可能是一尊完整的狮子雕像（见图）。

• Moreover, one pair of ancient Egypt ignorant of the people, any of his on the Sphinx can be ignored by the demonstration.

  而且，对于一个对古埃及学一无所知的人而言，他的任何关于狮身人面像的论证都是可以置之不理的。

• He remembers "climbing all over the Sphinx like the Lilliputians on Gulliver, and mapping it stone by stone. "

  他记得，「他像格列佛笔下的小人国臣民一样，爬遍狮身人面像，一块石头一块石头地绘制地图。」