英：[bə'lɪstə]
美：[bə'lɪstə]
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复数:ballistae或ballistas
ballista英英释义
Noun:
- an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
ballista词源中文解释
古代战争武器，用于投掷导弹，14世纪末起源于拉丁语 ballista "用于投掷石块的军事机器"，源自希腊语 ballistes，来自 ballein "投掷，投掷以击中"，也有更宽泛的意义，"放置，安放"（源自 PIE 根词 *gwele- "投掷，到达"）。
ballista词源英文解释
Middle English baliste "crossbow, ballista," borrowed from Latin ballista, bālista "ballista," borrowed from Greek ballistḗs, presumably "thrower, military engine" (attested only as the name of a constellation in an astrological manuscript), agent derivative of ballízein "to throw, hurl" — more at ball >entry 3 Note: Latin ballista is attested already in the plays of Plautus, and hence dates from the earliest period of literary Latin. It is striking that the word is unknown in the sense "military engine" in Greek, though a possible explanation lies in the distribution of the base word ballízein. It is only attested in authors from Magna Graecia, the areas of southern Italy and Sicily that were colonized by Greeks. This geographical limitation may explain both its non-occurrence elsewhere in Greek and its early transmission to Latin.
The first known use of ballista was in the 14th century
ballista 例句
1 A large number of the Orleans militiamen were on guard upon the embattled platform of their own entrenchment which was equipped with ballistas and other engines of war used in hurling bolts and large stones.
2 Six of the monsters were yoked like oxen, pulling a two-story-tall siege tower fitted with a giant scorpion ballista.
3 After all, Leo had started the war with Camp Jupiter by firing a ballista into the Forum.
4 Percy glanced toward the stern and spotted Frank, in human form, peeking out from behind a ballista, waiting.
5 ‘The three of them sneak in and disable the onagers, cause a distraction. Then the rest of us fly in with ballistae blazing.’
6 Even when her dragon yaws, pitches, and rolls after being hit by an arrow shot from Qyburn's ballista, the dainty dragon queen hangs tough in the face of the forces of physics trying to pry her loose.
7 The Argo II turned in the sky, presenting its port side, and green fire blazed from the ballista.
8 The ballista stones at the City of David likely date back to the Roman siege of Jerusalem to the destruction of the Second Temple.
9 The man, who is now 30, took the ballista stone from the City of David in the Jerusalem Walls National Park.
10 As well as other weapons, including cavalry lances, arrowheads and ballista bolts – all left behind on the floors – there are combs, bath clogs, shoes, stylus pens, hairpins and brooches.
11 Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
12 There were some crazy loops, like the way the ballista was enchanted, and a bunch of other stuff they played with on the storyboards.
13 He wasn’t going to fire any random ballistae again.
14 “Bacchus said something about breaking through. Coach, you still have ammo for those ballistae?”
15 "Naught but a ram or ballista can force these gates!" he said.
16 Nahshon Szanton and Moran Hagbi, the directors of the excavation, said the ballista balls were used by the Romans to bombard Jerusalem during the battle.
17 A box of Greek fire vials was secured by the forward ballista, but that was too far away.
18 The evidence is quite conclusive; yet the fire has been imputed to the Syrians, and a tale was invented about ballistas which hurled against the House of God enormous stones and vessels full of bitumen.
19 Shrimpzilla must have knocked them out of alignment, and the monster was in spitting distance, which meant that Leo couldn’t use the ballistae without setting the Argo II on fire as well.
20 Piper paced back and forth between the mainmast and the ballistae, practicing her lines.