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单词 daemon
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daemon1

(also daimon)
noun ˈdiːmənˈdimən
  • 1(in ancient Greek belief) a divinity or supernatural being of a nature between gods and humans.

    (古希腊信仰中)(半神半人)精灵

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘He was a well known thief and his daemon is a black dragon,’ said Ana.
    • Iamblichus also stressed that theurgists usually worked with lesser divinities - heroes, daimons and angels - and only the greatest of all, in exceptional circumstances, would trouble actual deities.
    • Exiled daemons are reincarnated into all sorts of living forms, finally coming to be as prophets, poets, physicians, and leaders among men.
    • I am an ancient daemon, and although I give the impression of being a model of youth and femininity, I have lived so many centuries I have begun to lose track.
    1. 1.1 An inner or attendant spirit or inspiring force.
      内在精神;鼓动力
      Socrates claimed to have lived his life according to the dictates of his daimon
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was his daimon who intervened in the Phaedrus, after Socrates had argued that it was better for a boy to yield to a man who did not love him than to a lover.
      • ‘Every human has a daemon that amplifies their talents and protects them to a certain degree,’ said Cameron.
      • The Latin equivalent of daimon is genius, the spirit double that is born and dies with a man and influences his conduct.
      • But the idea that Socrates introduced a ‘new god’ was probably a reference to his daimon, an internal individual guiding spirit which he claimed always stopped him when he was about to do something wrong.
      • That's how the spirit is controlled - daemons are fiercely independent beings, if they can get away - they will.
      • Meeks' own concluding essay, The Christian Proteus, reminds us of the shape-changing aspect of Paul, a daimon who questions us just when we think we are questioning him.
      • He wasn't so sure that the welding of artist and model improved the art, that her sudden fetish for Captain Hunt's bete-noir would inspire the strumming fingers of her daemon.
      • Casey's brain kicked into gear, her inner daemons flagging something from an old puzzle book.
      • We follow that inner voice, that angel-like soul (that daimon, as Plato called it) - or, stifled, we can become demonic.
      • Like the daimon of Socrates who indicates only what not to do, we too know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended.
      • They ‘send’ - via Mercury - those inner daemons that are bent on shaking up and shattering limiting preconceptions of who we are and what our role in life is.
      • Baudelaire's mystical vision, especially in the analogy to the cat as sign and symbol of the daimon, leads to a sense that ecstasy is possible when the self is aware of its own limitations and seeks to go beyond them.
      • Thanks to the daimon who kept him from swallowing Reformist preaching in his youth, future readers will never view him as a convert.
      • Baudelaire the poet has a special daimonic vision insofar as the poet has insight into the daimon described by Hesiod as unseen by the one being influenced.
      Synonyms
      inspiring force, genius, numen, demon
      tutelary spirit, familiar spirit, attendant spirit
      Latin genius loci
  • 2

    archaic spelling of demon
    Example sentencesExamples
    • is the entire town possessed by a malevolent daemon, forcing people to worship it by carving its image into fruit and vegetables, and hanging its likeness in their windows?
    • Before our modern era most people who had encounters knew that what they were dealing with were daemons, dragons, gnomes, fairies and trolls.
    • We shall send these daemons back to hell, where they belong!
    • Many returned to the old idea that the child was an evil spirit, or daemon sent to punish the royal family.
    • The ghosts are back; the manic daemons who make me think of spirits and kill the science.

Derivatives

  • daemonic

  • adjectivedɪˈmɒnɪkdəˈmänik
    • Thus, a purely aesthetic veneration for the old and defeated culture coexists with an intimation of its still unquiet daemonic power.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Its power was divine or daemonic, depending on which side you were on.
      • I admire those proud, cold beings who adventure upon the paths of great and daemonic beauty and despise ‘mankind’; but I do not envy them.
      • Moreover, in Jacobean drama calculation and cynicism are typically coded as daemonic and intrigue is in league with Evil.
      • For him, the secret of life's meaning lay in relating to this daemonic power in such a way as to know it.

Origin

Mid 16th century: common spelling of demon1 until the 19th century.

Rhymes

cacodemon, demon, Freeman, freemen, Philemon, Riemann, Schliemann, seaman, seamen, semen

daemon2

(Australian, NZ demon)
nounˈdiːmənˈdimən
Computing
  • A background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when not required.

    〔计算机〕守护程序

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You are also given a list of daemons/processes to start automatically at boot, and you can enable or disable them as you see fit.
    • Unlike some of the other daemons we have covered in this series, these two have interactive user programs that control them.
    • Before you can start using the administration daemon over the network, you have to create a keytab file containing the key for one of the kadmin principals created when we initialized our realm.
    • The slave component is run as a daemon (Unix) or system service (Win 32).
    • I added this new line with an appropriate IP address for my subnet, and restarted the named daemon.

Origin

1980s: perhaps from d(isk) a(nd) e(xecution) mon(itor) or from de(vice) mon(itor), or a transferred use of demon1.

daemon1

(also daimon)
nounˈdēmənˈdimən
  • 1(in ancient Greek belief) a divinity or supernatural being of a nature between gods and humans.

    (古希腊信仰中)(半神半人)精灵

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Exiled daemons are reincarnated into all sorts of living forms, finally coming to be as prophets, poets, physicians, and leaders among men.
    • I am an ancient daemon, and although I give the impression of being a model of youth and femininity, I have lived so many centuries I have begun to lose track.
    • Iamblichus also stressed that theurgists usually worked with lesser divinities - heroes, daimons and angels - and only the greatest of all, in exceptional circumstances, would trouble actual deities.
    • ‘He was a well known thief and his daemon is a black dragon,’ said Ana.
    1. 1.1 An inner or attendant spirit or inspiring force.
      内在精神;鼓动力
      Socrates claimed to have lived his life according to the dictates of his daimon
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We follow that inner voice, that angel-like soul (that daimon, as Plato called it) - or, stifled, we can become demonic.
      • That's how the spirit is controlled - daemons are fiercely independent beings, if they can get away - they will.
      • Like the daimon of Socrates who indicates only what not to do, we too know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended.
      • But the idea that Socrates introduced a ‘new god’ was probably a reference to his daimon, an internal individual guiding spirit which he claimed always stopped him when he was about to do something wrong.
      • Meeks' own concluding essay, The Christian Proteus, reminds us of the shape-changing aspect of Paul, a daimon who questions us just when we think we are questioning him.
      • Baudelaire's mystical vision, especially in the analogy to the cat as sign and symbol of the daimon, leads to a sense that ecstasy is possible when the self is aware of its own limitations and seeks to go beyond them.
      • Casey's brain kicked into gear, her inner daemons flagging something from an old puzzle book.
      • Baudelaire the poet has a special daimonic vision insofar as the poet has insight into the daimon described by Hesiod as unseen by the one being influenced.
      • He wasn't so sure that the welding of artist and model improved the art, that her sudden fetish for Captain Hunt's bete-noir would inspire the strumming fingers of her daemon.
      • It was his daimon who intervened in the Phaedrus, after Socrates had argued that it was better for a boy to yield to a man who did not love him than to a lover.
      • The Latin equivalent of daimon is genius, the spirit double that is born and dies with a man and influences his conduct.
      • Thanks to the daimon who kept him from swallowing Reformist preaching in his youth, future readers will never view him as a convert.
      • ‘Every human has a daemon that amplifies their talents and protects them to a certain degree,’ said Cameron.
      • They ‘send’ - via Mercury - those inner daemons that are bent on shaking up and shattering limiting preconceptions of who we are and what our role in life is.
      Synonyms
      inspiring force, genius, numen, demon
      inspiring force, genius, numen
  • 2

    archaic spelling of demon
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many returned to the old idea that the child was an evil spirit, or daemon sent to punish the royal family.
    • The ghosts are back; the manic daemons who make me think of spirits and kill the science.
    • Before our modern era most people who had encounters knew that what they were dealing with were daemons, dragons, gnomes, fairies and trolls.
    • is the entire town possessed by a malevolent daemon, forcing people to worship it by carving its image into fruit and vegetables, and hanging its likeness in their windows?
    • We shall send these daemons back to hell, where they belong!

Origin

Mid 16th century: common spelling of demon until the 19th century.

daemon2

(Australian, NZ demon)
nounˈdēmənˈdimən
Computing
  • A background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when not required.

    〔计算机〕守护程序

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Unlike some of the other daemons we have covered in this series, these two have interactive user programs that control them.
    • The slave component is run as a daemon (Unix) or system service (Win 32).
    • You are also given a list of daemons/processes to start automatically at boot, and you can enable or disable them as you see fit.
    • I added this new line with an appropriate IP address for my subnet, and restarted the named daemon.
    • Before you can start using the administration daemon over the network, you have to create a keytab file containing the key for one of the kadmin principals created when we initialized our realm.

Origin

1980s: perhaps from d(isk) a(nd) e(xecution) mon(itor) or from de(vice) mon(itor), or a transferred use of demon.

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