Unicorn（獨(dú)角獸）
If you have ever watched some fantastic films, such as The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and the Harry Potterseries, you must have noticed some strange creatures in the stories.
假如你看過《指環(huán)王》《納尼亞傳奇》《哈利波特》這類奇幻電影的話鲤孵，你一定對(duì)故事中那些奇怪的生物留有印象个盆。
In fact, the creatures contained in these works are largely derived from or greatly inspired by Greek mythology：centaur（人馬）, minotaur（牛頭人）, satyrs, nymph, Pegasus, Cerberus, dragon, mermaid... to name a few.
事實(shí)上，這些故事中的怪物大多源自希臘神話隧出，或者多多少少受到希臘神話的啟發(fā)，比如：半人馬阀捅、牛頭怪胀瞪、半羊人、仙女饲鄙、飛馬珀加索斯凄诞、三頭狗刻耳柏洛斯、噴火龍忍级、美人魚等帆谍。
While many mythic creatures are man-eating monsters or evil spirits, others, like unicorns, are powerful and peaceful.
雖然許多神話中的生物都是吃人的怪物或邪惡的精靈，但也不乏像獨(dú)角獸這類強(qiáng)大卻溫和的物種轴咱。
Over two thousand years ago, Greek travelers told tales of unicorns living in far-off lands. They caused no harm to humans, but such a favor was returned only by human hunting unicorns and luring（誘惑） them into traps.
在兩千多年前的古希臘就有關(guān)于獨(dú)角獸的記載汛蝙，它們居住在遙遠(yuǎn)的地方，對(duì)人類毫無惡意朴肺，然而窖剑，這份友好換來的卻是人類四處設(shè)置的陷阱、對(duì)它們的大肆捕殺戈稿。
The reason for that was the magical properties（功能） of the unique horn, which was believed to range from detecting（檢測） and neutralizing（中和） poisons and curing fevers to prolonging youth and acting as an aphrodisiac（催欲劑）.
原因就在于它們那神奇的獨(dú)角西土，古人相信獨(dú)角獸的角能夠檢測并中和毒劑、治療發(fā)燒器瘪、延緩衰老翠储、刺激性欲绘雁。
The word “unicorn” consists of two parts：the prefix uni-, meaning “one”, and the root corn, “horn”.
單詞unicorn（獨(dú)角獸）包含兩部分：前綴uni-的意思是“一”，詞根corn的意思是“角”援所。
As a productive prefix, uni- is used to form such English words as universe, uniform, university, unicycle, unify（統(tǒng)一） etc.
uni-是一個(gè)很常見的詞綴庐舟，可以構(gòu)成諸如universe（宇宙）、uniform（制服）住拭、university（大學(xué)）挪略、unicycle（獨(dú)輪車）、unify（統(tǒng)一）這些詞滔岳。
Its Greek equivalent was mono-, which appears in words like monologue（獨(dú)白）, monotonous（單調(diào)的）, monorail, monolingual, monopoly, monogamyetc.
而與之對(duì)應(yīng)的希臘詞綴mono-則構(gòu)成了monologue（獨(dú)白）杠娱、monotonous（單調(diào)的）、monorail（單軌列車）谱煤、monolingual（單一語言的）摊求、monopoly（獨(dú)裁）、monogamy（一夫一妻制）等刘离。
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