phoenix
- IPA[ˈfēniks]
美式
- (in classical mythology) a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.;a person or thing regarded as uniquely remarkable in some respect
noun: phoenix, plural noun: phoenixes
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名詞
- 1. (in classical mythology) a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.
- ▪ a person or thing regarded as uniquely remarkable in some respect I'm that phoenix, the old-fashioned family doctor