尤利西斯 (Yóulìxīsī) · Ulysses (Latin name of the Greek hero…

Meanings

1 Ulysses (Latin name of the Greek hero Odysseus)
2 Ulysses (1922 novel by James Joyce)

About Ulysses

Latin name of Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca in Homer's 奥德赛, who thinks up the Trojan Horse and spends ten years finding his way home. James Joyce named his 1922 novel Ulysses after him.

Also called 奥德修斯

Characters

尤

yóu

especially (transliteration character)

利

lì

advantage; sharp (transliteration character)

西

xī

west (transliteration character)

斯

sī

this (transliteration character, standard final -s)

Examples

HSK 6

尤利西斯是希腊神话中的英雄。

Yóulìxīsī shì Xīlà shénhuà zhōng de yīngxióng.

Ulysses is a hero in Greek mythology.

HSK 7-9

《尤利西斯》是詹姆斯·乔伊斯的代表作。

《 Yóulìxīsī 》 shì Zhānmǔsī Qiáoyīsī de dàibiǎozuò.

Ulysses is James Joyce's masterpiece.

Tips

culture

Joyce's novel has two classic Chinese translations: one by 金隄 (first volume 1993, complete 1996) and one by the couple 萧乾 and 文洁若 (1994). The book follows a single day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, as a parallel to the Odyssey.

memory

Sound by sound: 尤 U-, 利 -li-, 西 -sse-, 斯 -s. The character 斯 is the usual choice for a bare s sound, as in 阿尔卑斯 Alps and 莫斯科 Moscow.