millihelen
词形变化
millihelens
复数
millihelens
别名
milli-Helen
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A unit of measurement of beauty, corresponding to the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
幽默 非正式
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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