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sphinx

Related topics: Mythology
sphinx, Sphinx /sfɪŋks/ noun [countableC]  
RMan ancient Egyptian image of a lion with a human head, lying down 〔古埃及的〕狮身人面像，斯芬克斯（像）
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sphinx• Behind them, the huge ugly building crouched like a sphinx, purring through iron tonsils.• Phalle made a sphinx, which also served as her home over the several years of work on the project.• Mrs Nina Pender was less a pseud than a sphinx.• Luxor, built in the shape of a pyramid, complete with a sphinx out front.• Or a monstrous mysterious sphinx, aloof from all that lives.• She sat in the sphinx position, with her eyes closed.• His sometimes enigmatic expression and behaviour were likened to that of the sphinx in cartoonists' caricatures.• I was surprised, therefore, to find three sphinx caterpillars still feeding on the ash sapling next to the cabin.
the SphinxSphinx, then  
n1. the Great Sphinx a large, very ancient sphinx which is close to the Pyramids of El Giza in Egypt and is visited by many tourists
n2. in Greek mythology, a creature with the head of a woman and the body of a lion. She lay outside Thebes and killed people who could not answer her riddle (=very difficult question). Oedipus answered the riddle, and the Sphinx killed herself.
sphinx nounSphinx, then
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