Homer

(noun.) a base hit on which the batter scores a run.

(noun.) ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC).

(noun.) United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910).

(noun.) an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.

(verb.) hit a home run.

校对:威尔默

• The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Like Homer, he is said to be buried in many other places, but this is the only true and genuine place his ashes inhabit. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He does not, like Heracleitus, get into a rage with Homer and Archilochus (Heracl. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• You seem to know your Homer, Count, said the Rector, rather surprised at the classical knowledge of this ignorant young man. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• But, if Homer never did any public service, was he privately a guide or teacher of any? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But they did not; and therefore we may infer that Homer and all the poets are only imitators, who do but imitate the appearances of things. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He was just beginning to be conscious that the past had a history; but he could see nothing beyond Homer and Hesiod. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The armour of Diomede, says Homer, cost only nine oxen; but that of Glaucus cost a hundred oxen. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He may make Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Plato, Bacon the friends and companions of his life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Aha, Miss Rosy, you don't know Homer from slang. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And I can hardly be mistaken in saying that sweet sauces are nowhere mentioned in Homer. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Away with the lying dream of Agamemnon in Homer, and the accusation of Thetis against Apollo in Aeschylus. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I think Homer, with his 'multitudinous laughter of the sea,' is the only poet who pays Ocean a compliment. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Homer to the Greeks was a Bible, a textbook of morals, a history, and a national inspiration. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Homer wrote his poem, called the _Odyssey_, some hundred years before the birth of Christ. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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