Cornucopia (續：寓言 神話 單字大集合)

cornucopia

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n. (名詞 noun)

         1.    【希神】哺育宙斯神的羊的角
         2.    裝滿花果及穀穗表豐饒的羊角狀物,豐饒的象徵,角形裝飾物


　

All of Paul Thomas Anderson's films have been about family.

Hard Eight is about a man creating a surrogate family out of the guilt he felt for messing up his original one; Boogie Nights is about a lost little boy attempting to find someone to nurture him;

Magnolia is nothing else if not a cornucopia of stories about the need to make peace with parents; and Punch-Drunk Love is about the efforts of a man stunted by his domineering family to escape their influence.


1. 迂迴
2. 諷刺
Innuendo

3. 寓言
allegory
symbolize ideas and abstractions
fable
animals speak and act like people, never happen, lies
parablebrief story illustrating religious ideas
[Jesus] taught in parables.
Unusual offbeater could be [pegged] a parable, social satire as a dream film. It has power and solidity.
As Larry slowly loses control over his surrounding[s], he [seeks] counsel from various [rabbis], whose parables offer little help to [alleviate] his anxiety and fear.
myth
origins and gods, imaginative

3.5 神話
Sphinx
Protean
Concentrating on Mabel's protean [moods], as well as on the reactions of her family and her husband, Cassavetes shies away from a [pat] diagnosis of madness, suggesting that the institution of marriage
-- even to a husband who loves her -- is as responsible for Mabel's breakdown as her own inner turmoil. Gorgon
Moore is a terrifying, lip-gloss [gorgon], [queasily] convincing in her power-mad sanctity and the [swoony] way she executes the born-again
Chimera
And I wanna fuck you ubtill we merge into a chimera, it's a mythical beast eith penis and vagina eternally fused, two pairs of eyes that look only at each other, and lips ever touching. And one voice that whispers to itself.

Adonis
Aphrodite
aphrodisiac In other words, too much brain and not enough guts. What he came up with to help our guts was a parasite, a combination of aphrodisiac and veneral disease.
cf. hermaphrodite
Samson
Samaritan
Shamed and hardened by his fledgling act of [samaritan] protest
and it has been his experience that such Samaritans often insist on [giving] him money.

Mercurial
She also appeared in another Godard project, but the mercurial director lost interest and never [even] began editing the completed footage.
Jovial
cherub
seraphic
Hey, where are you hiding that great seraphic of yours?

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orgy
Some will find Cousins difficult to watch, especially the [orgy] sequence with its Nazi ending. But those who can stick with it will be [amply] rewarded.
Saturnalia
Bacchanalia

Nemesis 
Harpy
Cusack finally [asserted] himself an adult actor with his stylish, sympathetic performance, but Huston and Bening steal the show as the harpies out to [devour] him.
Siren
Juno
Hymen
Mary's response is to receive a pool-bottom vision of Christ, and then [sacrifice] her hymen for the lug
DemeterMy name has porigins[ in Greek mythology, it was the [epithet] of the goddess Demeter.

fawn
a fawn is a very young deer.
satyr
It's the same question that could be asked of the [satyr]-like 1970s Hollywood figures who often seemed to think that they had their own special licences to transgress.
faun
a faun is a figure in Roman myth, half man, half goat, something like a satyr.
nymphomania
nymph
naiad
undine water
By marrying a [man], an undine could acquire a mortal soul.
sylph air
but directs her sylph-[like] affections in an unexpected direction.
salamander fire
"a salamander that... lives in the midst of [flames]" (Addison).
gnome earth
[ugly] enough to be king of the gnomes.
faerie
Everyone knows that the Most Important Man in Hollywood is not Tom Cruise, not Mel Gibson, none of the Weinsteins, but [weary]-eyed faery prince Robert Pattinson.

Vulcan
Vulcan nerve pinch? That was close.【羅神】火和鍛冶的神








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