Aurora 奧羅拉 歐若拉 Clash of the Gods

[Roman] Aurora is the Roman personification of the dawn. She is also the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Eos. Aurora is seen as a lovely woman who flies across the sky announcing the arrival of the sun. Aurora has two siblings: a brother, the sun, and a sister, the moon. She has had quite a number of husbands and sons. Four of her sons are the four winds (north, south, east, and west). According to one myth, her tears cause the dew as she flies across the sky weeping for one of her sons, who was killed.
n.【羅神】曙光女神

aurora
A luminous atmospheric phenomenon appearing as streamers or bands of light sometimes visible in the night sky in northern or southern regions of the earth. It is thought to be caused by charged particles from the sun entering the earth's magnetic field and stimulating molecules in the atmosphere.
The dawn.
n. [地物] 極光；曙光;黎明

auroral
of or like the dawn.
pertaining to the aurora borealis or aurora australis.
adj. 極光的；曙光的；玫瑰紅的

aureole
A circle of light or radiance surrounding the head or body of a representation of a deity or holy person; a halo.
n. 光環；光輪；暈（等于aureola）

auriferous fer拿，帶來，產生
Containing gold; gold-bearing
adj. 產金的; 含金的

aureate
Of a golden color; gilded.
Inflated and pompous in style
adj. 鍍金的; 金色的；華麗的, 燦爛的

詞源小故事

academy n. 學院，研究院，學會

Borrowed either from French académie or from Latin acadēmia, academy goes back ultimately to Greek Akadēmíā, the name of the place in Athens where the philosopher Plato (c. 427–347 BC) taught. Traditionally thought of as a grove (‘the groves of Academe’), this was in fact more of an enclosed piece of ground, a garden or park; it was named after the Attic mythological hero Akadēmos or Hekadēmus. In its application to the philosophical doctrines of Plato, English academy goes back directly to its Latin source, but the more general meanings ‘college, place of training’ derive from French.

在希臘神話中，斯巴達少女海倫（Helen）乃主神宙斯（Zeus）與斯巴達王之妻所生，她美艷絕倫，使許多希臘英雄為之傾倒。雅典王子提修斯（Theseus）一度將她劫走。她的兩位孿生哥哥卡斯托耳（Castor）和波呂丟刻斯（Pollux）四處探尋其下落。后來一位名叫Akademos（亦作Hekadēmus）的雅典英雄（一說農夫）給了某種暗示，他們才把海倫要了回來。自此以后，Akademos/Hekadēmus所在的雅典城郊小樹林（grove）時時有眾神守護著，以免遭到報復。相傳，約公元前387年希臘著名哲學家柏拉圖（Plato，427-347BC）就在這片林園里創辦了一所學校，廣收門徒，講授哲學。他根據Akademos的名字將學校命名為Akademeia，現一般譯作“柏拉圖學園”，簡稱“學園”。英語academy，究其根源，實出自Akademeia一詞，15世紀時只用作專有名詞，指“柏拉圖學園”。到了16世紀，academy和柏拉圖以及希臘神話的聯系漸被人們遺忘，開始被用以指“學院”或“高等?？茖W校”。17世紀以后也指“學會”或“研究院”，如the Royal Military Academy（英國皇家軍事學院），the Royal Academy of Arts（皇家藝術學會），the Chinese Academy of Sciences（中國科學院）等。