2022年7月5日 星期二

temptress, necropolis, a derisively callous one at times


 Mitsuko had become Otsu's temptress, a derisively callous one at times.
美津子成了大津的妖精,有時冷酷無情。

A 'Temptress' Never Tempts Fate
Annual Blessing of the Fleet Is Boaters' Talisman for Smooth Sailing
(By Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post)



The London Necropolis Railway was the spookiest, strangest train line in British history.
Via BBC Autos
Jerusalem's new underground necropolis is a novel solution to the city's crowded cemeteries

“While our chef is indeed Italian, his hostess is his Spanish temptress,” he adds. “With the launch of Bertolli Oven Bake Meals hurting his restaurant, his fear, of course, is that to lose his restaurant is to lose the faithfulness of his hostess and true love, much as Don José loses Carmen to Escamillo.”




The meaning of DERISIVE is expressing or causing contemptuous ridicule or scorn : expressing or causing derision. 


necropolis is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments. The name stems from the Ancient Greek νεκρόπολις nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead". The term usually implies a separate burial site at a distance from a ...
Greta Garbo, 1926 in the film “The temptress”

The meaning of TEMPTRESS is a woman who tempts or entices. 

 temptress

誘惑者
Yūwaku-sha

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