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sphinxsfINksn [C]pl sphinx or sphinxes an ancient imaginary creature with a lion's body and a woman's head斯芬克司(古代神话中狮身人面女怪)According to ancient Greek legend, the sphinx set a riddle which no one before Oedipus was able to answer.在古希腊神话中，斯芬克司出了一个谜语，没有人能猜得出，后来被俄狄浦斯猜出了。She's as inscrutable as a sphinx (= it is difficult to tell what she is thinking).她像斯芬克司一样神秘莫测。The sphinx are also huge stone statues, each with a lion's body and a person's head, found in the desert near Cairo in Egypt.狮身人面像The cat just sat there, sphinx-like and mysterious.猫坐在那里，如狮身人面像般的神秘。
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