托勒密
Tuō lè mì
Pinyin
Definition
托勒密
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- Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC
- Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成
- see also 托勒玫[Tuō lè méi]
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 tell-tale
- 2 informer (esp. to police)
- 3 whistleblower
- 4 grass
- 1 secret code
- 2 ciphertext
- 3 password
- 4 PIN
- 1 prop
- 2 support (for weight)
- 3 rest (e.g. arm rest)
- 4 thanks to
- 5 to hold in one's hand
- 6 to support in one's palm
- 7 to give
- 8 to base
- 9 to commit
- 10 to set
- 11 torr (unit of pressure)
- 1 to request sb to do sth
- 2 please!
Idioms (7)
密不可分
- 1 inextricably linked (idiom)
- 2 inseparable
悬崖勒马
- 1 lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)
- 2 fig. to act in the nick of time
托足无门
- 1 to be unable to find a place to stay (idiom)
敲诈勒索
- 1 extortion and blackmail (idiom)
烘云托月
- 1 lit. to shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil
- 2 a contrasting character to a main hero