[每日] talisman (n) 護身符
Word of the Day (Saturday January 24, 2009)
talisman \TAL-is-muhn, TAL-iz-muhn\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://ppt.cc/uoZ9
1. an object, such as a ring, engraved with figures supposed to
have magic power; charm
2. anything that seems to produce extraordinary results
Cheadle, who is one of the film's producers as well as its star,
is deployed like an ethical talisman to show viewers that this
movie is not like those other terrorist flicks.
-- Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post, 2008-08-29
Included, almost as a talisman, is the 1905 painting of Two
Harlequins, one of the few survivors of the Thannhauser Paris
collection.
-- Time, 1965-05-07
by 1599, from French talisman, in part via Arabic tilsam (pl.
tilsaman), a Greek loan-word; in part directly from Byzantine
Greek telesma "talisman, religious rite, payment," earlier
"consecration, ceremony," originally "completion," from telein
"perform (religious rites), pay (tax), fulfill," from telos
"completion, end, tax."
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