phoenix

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复数： phoenixes

phoenix

noun

（传说中的）凤凰，长生鸟
(in stories) a magic bird that lives for several hundred years before burning itself and then being born again from its ashes

to rise like a phoenix from the ashes (= to be powerful or successful again)

雄起如再生的凤凰

频次

1
N-COUNT 凤凰；不死鸟
A phoenix is an imaginary bird which, according to ancient stories, burns itself to ashes every five hundred years and is then born again.
2
N-SING 起死回生的人（或物）
If you describe someone or something as a phoenix, you mean that they return again after seeming to disappear or be destroyed.

Out of the ashes of the economic shambles, a phoenix of recovery can arise.

在经济废墟中可能孕育着经济复苏的苗头。

noun

a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix;according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years

a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa: Synonym: genus Phoenix

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