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。

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.

1. 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。

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2. 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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3. By this time Pitt had become a teenage idol.

皮特此时已经成为青少年崇拜的偶像了.

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4. 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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5. Functionally, forced IDOL expression markedly reduces LDLR expression, resulting in increased plasma cholesterol.

功能, 诱导IDOL表达功能性地降低低密度脂蛋白受体的表达, 从而增加血浆胆固醇水平.

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