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单词 cupid:
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Cupid:

1. love-god,son of Venus.represented as a naked,winged and blinded littleboy with bow and arrow爱神丘匹德,维纳斯之子,形象为一赤身露体、带翅膀、手持弓箭并被蒙住眼睛的小男孩。
△Ado. 1.1. 192 (184):“to tell us Cu-pid is a good hare-finder”,告诉我们丘匹德善于搜寻野兔。
△Ado. 1. 1. 263 (252):“hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for thesign of blind Cupid. ”把我悬挂在妓院门口,当做瞎眼的丘匹德的招牌。(按:当时英国妓院,常把丘匹德画在招牌上。)
△Wiv. 5. 5. 32 (28): “Why,now is Cupid a child ofconscience,he makes restitution.”嗳,丘匹德是个有良心的孩子,他给我补偿了。

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2.i.e. the presenter of the maskers,often a boydressed as Cupid,who introduced them and offeredan apology to the host丘匹德——参加假面舞会者常用一少年扮作丘匹德,向主人介绍客人并致词道歉。
△Rom.1.4.4:“We’ll have no Cupid hoodwinked with a scarf,”我们不需要蒙上眼睛的丘匹德。
Cupid’s flower: i.e. love-in-idleness丘匹德之花,(即)三色堇。
△Mid.4.1.79 (73): “Dian’s bud o’er Cupid’sflower / Hath such force and blessed power.”狄安娜的蓓蕾圣威大,力量胜过丘匹德之花。
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