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单词 Alexandrian
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Definition of Alexandrian in English:

Alexandrian

adjective ˌalɪɡˈzɑːndrɪənˌæləɡˈzændriən
  • 1Relating to Alexandria in Egypt.

    (与)埃及亚历山大(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The minarets, columns, and pillars that make up the skyline are a mixture of recognizable Alexandrian landmarks and the Bellinis' own invention.
    • It was a tabletop monument to Greek and Alexandrian astronomy.
    • In Alexandrian courtrooms a defendant was permitted to speak for a certain regulated time.
    • In the third century BC, the famous Greek mathematician Archimedes issued a challenge to the Alexandrian mathematicians, headed by Eratosthenes.
    • The daughter of an English merchant based in Smyrna, she had married a rich Alexandrian merchant, later British Consul General in Egypt, and had travelled extensively in the Levant.
    1. 1.1 Belonging to the schools of literature and philosophy of ancient Alexandria.
      (与)古亚历山大学派(有关)的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Far from originating in Alexandria, Newman described the philosophical influences on the Alexandrian school as free from speculation and concerned with propagation of doctrine.
      • First, in the Greek tradition, we nowhere find evidence of an Alexandrian philosopher named David; neither the Suda nor Hesychius nor Photius nor anyone else seems to know of any such person.
      • Origen and Augustine belonged to the Alexandrian school, which was prone to allegorization, largely because of their neo-Platonic philosophy.
      • He felt that there were spiritual realities that needed to be asserted against the kind of fading dimensions of classicism and of the Alexandrian school of philosophers.
      • Philoponus never held the Alexandrian philosophy chair.
    2. 1.2 (of a writer) derivative or imitative of previous writers and fond of obscure learning.
      (作者)演化的,模仿的;喜欢深奥学问的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Alexandrian poets write out of a library, the library of other poetry they carry in their heads, rather than out of a commemorative rural ethic or an aspiration towards the ‘permanently upright city’.
      Synonyms
      obscure, abstruse, arcane, esoteric, little known, recherché, abstract, deep, profound, cryptic, difficult, complex, complicated, involved

Definition of Alexandrian in US English:

Alexandrian

adjectiveˌæləɡˈzændriənˌaləɡˈzandrēən
  • 1Relating to Alexandria in Egypt.

    (与)埃及亚历山大(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The minarets, columns, and pillars that make up the skyline are a mixture of recognizable Alexandrian landmarks and the Bellinis' own invention.
    • It was a tabletop monument to Greek and Alexandrian astronomy.
    • The daughter of an English merchant based in Smyrna, she had married a rich Alexandrian merchant, later British Consul General in Egypt, and had travelled extensively in the Levant.
    • In the third century BC, the famous Greek mathematician Archimedes issued a challenge to the Alexandrian mathematicians, headed by Eratosthenes.
    • In Alexandrian courtrooms a defendant was permitted to speak for a certain regulated time.
    1. 1.1 Belonging to or akin to the schools of literature and philosophy of ancient Alexandria.
      (与)古亚历山大学派(有关)的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He felt that there were spiritual realities that needed to be asserted against the kind of fading dimensions of classicism and of the Alexandrian school of philosophers.
      • Far from originating in Alexandria, Newman described the philosophical influences on the Alexandrian school as free from speculation and concerned with propagation of doctrine.
      • Origen and Augustine belonged to the Alexandrian school, which was prone to allegorization, largely because of their neo-Platonic philosophy.
      • Philoponus never held the Alexandrian philosophy chair.
      • First, in the Greek tradition, we nowhere find evidence of an Alexandrian philosopher named David; neither the Suda nor Hesychius nor Photius nor anyone else seems to know of any such person.
    2. 1.2 (of a writer) derivative or imitative rather than creative; fond of recondite learning.
      (作者)演化的,模仿的;喜欢深奥学问的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Alexandrian poets write out of a library, the library of other poetry they carry in their heads, rather than out of a commemorative rural ethic or an aspiration towards the ‘permanently upright city’.
      Synonyms
      obscure, abstruse, arcane, esoteric, little known, recherché, abstract, deep, profound, cryptic, difficult, complex, complicated, involved
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