| 释义 |
phoenix/ˈfi:niks/n. 1 a mythical bird, the only one of its kind, that after living for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, burnt itself on a funeral pyre and rose from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle 长生鸟(神话中的鸟，相传只有一只，它在阿拉伯沙漠中活了五六百年，自焚为灰后再生)，凤凰 2 a unique person or thing 独一无二的人(或物) [Old English & Old French fenix via Latin phoenix from Greek phoinix ‘Phoenician, purple, phoenix’] |