idol

• n. 偶像，崇拜物；幻象；谬论
• n. (Idol)人名；(英)伊多尔

来自拉丁语idolum,形象，影象，神像，词源同idea,想象，想出来的想法。引申词义偶像。

1. a material effigy that is worshipped as a god;

"thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"

"money was his god"

2. someone who is adored blindly and excessively

3. an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

idol

idol: [13] Greek eidos meant ‘form, shape’ (it came from the same root as idéā, source of English idea). From it was derived eídōlon, which originally meant ‘appearance’, and in particular ‘apparition, phantom’. It developed from there to ‘image’, either a ‘mental image’ or a ‘physical image’, such as a ‘statue’; and in the early Christian era it and its Latin descendant īdōlum were used for an ‘image of a false god’.

English acquired the word via Old French idole or idele. Another English offspring of Greek eidos, in the sense ‘picture’, is idyll [17], which was borrowed from the diminutive form eidúllion ‘little picture’, hence ‘small descriptive poem’.
=> idea, idyll

idol (n.)

mid-13c., "image of a deity as an object of (pagan) worship," from Old French idole "idol, graven image, pagan god," from Late Latin idolum "image (mental or physical), form," used in Church Latin for "false god," from Greek eidolon "appearance, reflection in water or a mirror," later "mental image, apparition, phantom," also "material image, statue," from eidos "form" (see -oid). Figurative sense of "something idolized" is first recorded 1560s (in Middle English the figurative sense was "someone who is false or untrustworthy"). Meaning "a person so adored" is from 1590s.

If children are turning to athletes as role models, it’s in their best interest if their idols are consistent.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

a fallen idol (= sb who is no longer popular)

陨落的明星

牛津词典

the idol of countless teenagers

无数十几岁青少年崇拜的偶像

牛津词典

a pop/football/teen, etc. idol

流行音乐偶像、足球明星、青少年的偶像等

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He was once worshipped like a god but is now a fallen idol.

他曾像神一样受崇拜,如今却成了堕落的偶像。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He looks more like a stockbroker than a teen idol.

他看起来不像是青少年偶像，而更像个股票经纪人。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

A great cheer went up from the crowd as they caught sight of their idol...

一看到他们的偶像,人群爆发出热烈的欢呼声。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

And Simon Cowell says this will be his last season on American Idol.

西蒙·科威尔表示,这将是他在《美国偶像》最后出现的一季.

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Believe in the ideal, not the idol.

信仰你的理念, 而不是偶像.

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The football player is the idol of many young people.

这位足球运动员是许多年轻人崇拜的偶像.

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Freddy: Sounds a lot like American Idol.

福瑞迪: 听起来很像《美国偶像》.

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A: Do you watch American Idol?

你看《美国偶像》 吗 ?

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The fans were falling over one another to ask their idol singer for signature.

歌迷们正争先恐后请自己的偶像歌星签名.

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They will call your idol perhaps more form of addresses that you want to hear.

他们会叫你偶像或者更多你想听到的称呼.

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Every time you destroy an idol in your life.

每一次你将自己生命中的偶像打碎.

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Rudolph Valentino was matinee idol of his day.

鲁道夫瓦伦蒂诺是他那个时代使女性倾倒的男明星.

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Ivy : Do not laugh at me. He is my idol.

不要取笑我了. 他是我的偶像.

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As an only child he was the idol of his parents.

作为独子,他是父母的宠儿.

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Michael Jackson has been an idol for me all my life.

迈克尔·杰克逊是我一生中的偶像.

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I am lucky to meet my idol.

我居然碰到了我的偶像.

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Girl singing competition, a show widely regarded as China s version of American Idol.

年仅22岁却红遍全国的张靓颖是2005年“超级女声”歌唱比赛的第三名, 这一选秀节目被公认为“美国偶像”的中国翻版.

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Prejudice might demand the sacrifice, but she is an idol to whom we bow not.

偏见可能要求人们以牺牲为代价, 那只不过是幽灵,您我都不会向这个幽灵屈服.

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Ordinary idol, like the faint night light to guide the soul the way forward.

平凡的偶像, 像黑夜里微弱的灯光,指引着心灵前进的方向.

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Blind worship of this idol must be ended.

对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了.

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He became the idol of the New World.

他在新世界成了偶像.

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Are you now your own idol?

(Snow)你的偶像是你自己 吗 ?

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In China, he is a teen idol, regularly attracting mobs of screaming young girls.

现在, 他是中国青少年的偶像, 所到之处能引发大群女孩子催情的尖叫.

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A few of us actually entertained the notion of auditioning for American Idol.

我们中间有几个人还考虑过参加美国偶像的海选.

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Which of these american idol finalists from birmingham, alabama was dubbed the velvet teddy bear?

以下来自阿拉巴马-伯明翰的三位偶像哪一位为天鹅绒泰迪熊配音?

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One of the most popular reality television shows right now is called American Idol.

目前最受欢迎的纪实电视是《美国偶像》.

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