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单词 Ionian
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Definition of Ionian in English:

Ionian

noun ʌɪˈəʊnɪənaɪˈoʊniən
  • 1A member of an ancient Hellenic people inhabiting Attica, parts of western Asia Minor, and the Aegean islands in pre-classical times. Apparently displaced from some areas by the Dorians in the 11th or 12th century BC, they retained their settlements in Attica, especially Athens, where they were responsible for some of the greatest achievements of classical Greece.

    爱奥尼亚人(前古典时期居住在阿提卡、小亚细亚西部及爱琴群岛上的一古希腊民族,公元前11或12世纪被多里安人从部分地区赶走,但保住了其在阿提卡的居住地,尤其是雅典,在这里他们创造了古希腊文明中许多伟大成就,并开拓了被称为爱奥尼亚群岛的岛屿)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Thales of Miletus had foretold this loss of daylight to the Ionians, fixing it within the year in which the change did indeed happen.
    • So, this Greek people, as we can call them today, the ancient Greeks, typified by the case of Thales, who was Ionian, or the case of the Pythagoreans, developed a science based on Egypt, which is called spherics.
    • Anaxagoras was an Ionian, born in the neighbourhood of Smyrna in what today is Turkey.
    • The Greeks and Trojans are described as ethnically similar; Thracians were more often blond then mainlanders, Ionians more prone to semitic cult deities and Persian cultural influence.
    • This event had been foretold by Thales, the Milesian, who forewarned the Ionians of it, fixing for it the very year in which it took place.
    • Thurii, an Athenian colony established in 444/3 in southern Italy on the site of Sybaris, constitutes a special case in the colonial pattern, since individuals from several poleis, both Ionian and Dorian, joined in the settlement.
    • The finest frieze shows a long line of dependent races paying tribute to the Persian king: the Ionians have brought balls of wool, the Cappadocians horses, the Parthians donkeys and jars.
    • Herodotus speaks of Ionians, Dorians, Herakleeidai, and Akhaians among the Greeks, that is, with aggregative self-definitions.
    • Thales and the Ionians on the mainland were the Founders of Applied Science.
    • He consulted Bias about the best way to deploy warships against the Ionians of the Aegean islands.
  • 2A native or inhabitant of the Ionian Islands.

    爱奥尼亚人

adjective ʌɪˈəʊnɪənaɪˈoʊniən
  • Relating to the Ionians, Ionia, or the Ionian Islands.

    爱奥尼亚人的;爱奥尼亚的;爱奥尼亚群岛的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After the Italians invaded during World War II, an earthquake in 1953, measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale caused much damage to it and other Ionian islands.
    • The British were reluctant to cede the Ionians back to Greece in the 1860s, and it's easy to see why.
    • Located at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece includes over 1,500 islands in the Ionian and Aegean Seas.
    • The country is bordered by Albania, the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and the Aegean, Ionian, and Cretan seas.
    • Making detailed use of a wealth of archival information, Gallant vividly reconstructs nineteenth-century Ionian life.
    • On the other hand, it would be wrong to think of him as a straightforward natural philosopher in the manner of other Ionian philosophers, for he is deeply concerned with the moral implications of physical theory.
    • Considered the centre of the Cyclades in Antiquity, Delos became the principal cult centre of Ionian Greeks from the 8th century bc.
    • He permanently rejected the long Greek robes, and adopted trousers, turning away from Ionian culture and identifying himself strongly with the East.
    • At the time of the Ionian revolt the Ephesian Thesmophoria were celebrated near the borders of the city's territory.
    • Prometheus assures her that a sea, the Ionian, will be named after her and that she will have a son with Zeus when she is returned to a human being.
    • In general, these new ideas came as a result of an influx of Ionian thinkers into the Attic peninsula.
    • The islands grab the lion's share of tourist attention: the Cyclades with their white villages crisp against an indigo sky; the softer, greener beauty of the Ionians; Crete, a continent and civilisation in itself; and so many more.
    • Corinth owed much of its early success as a port to the fact that it was actually two ports - one to the Ionian and Adriatic Seas on the west side, and the other to the Aegean Sea on the east side, then separated only by the narrow isthmus.
    • Histiaeus overboldly promised to regain the allegiance of Miletus and other Ionian cities that Aristagoras, his appointed deputy and relative, had led into rebellion.
    • The peninsula is bounded by the Ionian, Mediterranean, and Aegean Seas.
    • Only five per cent of the total surface area of the region's agricultural land is planted with vines, most of them close to the northern, Tyrrhenian coast or the southern, Ionian coast.
    • Albania is a Mediterranean country sitting on the coast of the Adriatic and Ionian seas.
    • The Greek atomists invented atomism as an answer to the scientific question which the Ionian philosophers were asking, namely ‘what permanent stuff is the physical world made of?’
    • The Ionian and Aegean seas and the many deep bays and natural harbors along the coastlines allowed the Greeks to prosper in maritime commerce and to develop a culture which drew inspiration from many sources, both foreign and indigenous.
    • In 1826, he had made a major botanical trip to the Ionian Islands off the west coast of Greece - to Corfu, Zante and Cefalonia - setting up a herbarium of Ionian plants, which are now held at Kew.

Rhymes

Aberdonian, Amazonian, Apollonian, Babylonian, Baconian, Bostonian, Caledonian, Catalonian, Chalcedonian, Ciceronian, Devonian, draconian, Estonian, Etonian, gorgonian, Johnsonian, Laconian, Macedonian, Miltonian, Newtonian, Oregonian, Oxonian, Patagonian, Plutonian, Tennysonian, Tobagonian, Washingtonian

Definition of Ionian in US English:

Ionian

nounīˈōnēənaɪˈoʊniən
  • 1A member of an ancient Hellenic people inhabiting Attica, parts of western Asia Minor, and the Aegean islands in preclassical and classical times. They also colonized the islands that became known as the Ionian Islands.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Anaxagoras was an Ionian, born in the neighbourhood of Smyrna in what today is Turkey.
    • Thales and the Ionians on the mainland were the Founders of Applied Science.
    • The Greeks and Trojans are described as ethnically similar; Thracians were more often blond then mainlanders, Ionians more prone to semitic cult deities and Persian cultural influence.
    • So, this Greek people, as we can call them today, the ancient Greeks, typified by the case of Thales, who was Ionian, or the case of the Pythagoreans, developed a science based on Egypt, which is called spherics.
    • He consulted Bias about the best way to deploy warships against the Ionians of the Aegean islands.
    • The finest frieze shows a long line of dependent races paying tribute to the Persian king: the Ionians have brought balls of wool, the Cappadocians horses, the Parthians donkeys and jars.
    • Thales of Miletus had foretold this loss of daylight to the Ionians, fixing it within the year in which the change did indeed happen.
    • This event had been foretold by Thales, the Milesian, who forewarned the Ionians of it, fixing for it the very year in which it took place.
    • Herodotus speaks of Ionians, Dorians, Herakleeidai, and Akhaians among the Greeks, that is, with aggregative self-definitions.
    • Thurii, an Athenian colony established in 444/3 in southern Italy on the site of Sybaris, constitutes a special case in the colonial pattern, since individuals from several poleis, both Ionian and Dorian, joined in the settlement.
    1. 1.1 A native or inhabitant of the Ionian Islands.
      爱奥尼亚人
adjectiveīˈōnēənaɪˈoʊniən
  • Relating to the Ionians, Ionia, or the Ionian Islands.

    爱奥尼亚人的;爱奥尼亚的;爱奥尼亚群岛的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the other hand, it would be wrong to think of him as a straightforward natural philosopher in the manner of other Ionian philosophers, for he is deeply concerned with the moral implications of physical theory.
    • Making detailed use of a wealth of archival information, Gallant vividly reconstructs nineteenth-century Ionian life.
    • The country is bordered by Albania, the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and the Aegean, Ionian, and Cretan seas.
    • Considered the centre of the Cyclades in Antiquity, Delos became the principal cult centre of Ionian Greeks from the 8th century bc.
    • Albania is a Mediterranean country sitting on the coast of the Adriatic and Ionian seas.
    • In general, these new ideas came as a result of an influx of Ionian thinkers into the Attic peninsula.
    • At the time of the Ionian revolt the Ephesian Thesmophoria were celebrated near the borders of the city's territory.
    • The Greek atomists invented atomism as an answer to the scientific question which the Ionian philosophers were asking, namely ‘what permanent stuff is the physical world made of?’
    • He permanently rejected the long Greek robes, and adopted trousers, turning away from Ionian culture and identifying himself strongly with the East.
    • Located at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece includes over 1,500 islands in the Ionian and Aegean Seas.
    • The islands grab the lion's share of tourist attention: the Cyclades with their white villages crisp against an indigo sky; the softer, greener beauty of the Ionians; Crete, a continent and civilisation in itself; and so many more.
    • In 1826, he had made a major botanical trip to the Ionian Islands off the west coast of Greece - to Corfu, Zante and Cefalonia - setting up a herbarium of Ionian plants, which are now held at Kew.
    • The peninsula is bounded by the Ionian, Mediterranean, and Aegean Seas.
    • The British were reluctant to cede the Ionians back to Greece in the 1860s, and it's easy to see why.
    • Histiaeus overboldly promised to regain the allegiance of Miletus and other Ionian cities that Aristagoras, his appointed deputy and relative, had led into rebellion.
    • Corinth owed much of its early success as a port to the fact that it was actually two ports - one to the Ionian and Adriatic Seas on the west side, and the other to the Aegean Sea on the east side, then separated only by the narrow isthmus.
    • After the Italians invaded during World War II, an earthquake in 1953, measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale caused much damage to it and other Ionian islands.
    • The Ionian and Aegean seas and the many deep bays and natural harbors along the coastlines allowed the Greeks to prosper in maritime commerce and to develop a culture which drew inspiration from many sources, both foreign and indigenous.
    • Prometheus assures her that a sea, the Ionian, will be named after her and that she will have a son with Zeus when she is returned to a human being.
    • Only five per cent of the total surface area of the region's agricultural land is planted with vines, most of them close to the northern, Tyrrhenian coast or the southern, Ionian coast.
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