millihelen

词形变化

millihelens 复数 millihelens

别名

milli-Helen

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A unit of measurement of beauty, corresponding to the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

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词源

From milli- + Helen, referring to Helen of Troy, the maiden so beautiful that her abduction by Paris sparked the Trojan War and was said, in Christopher Marlowe's 1604 Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, to have "launched a thousand ships".

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