juggernaut

['dʒʌɡənɔ:t]
  • n. 世界主宰；强大的破坏力
GRE 畅通词汇

中文词源

juggernaut 大型卡车，无法控制的强大机构

来自印度语Jagannath,宇宙之主，印度主神Vishnu的敬称，来自梵语jagat,世界，宇宙，natha,主，上帝。拼写受英语词根naut影响俗化，来自PIE*nau,船，导航，词源同nautical,navigate.该词原指在印度奥里萨邦Puri地区举行的的宗教节日，人们把主神Jagannath的巨大雕像放在巨大的推车上，然后从一座庙拉到另一座庙，由于车轮巨大的惯性，常有民众因此丧生，甚至有虔诚的民众自愿投身到滚滚车轮之下被碾死。因此引申词义巨大的力量，无法控制的强大机构。比较西孟加拉邦宗教节日Durga Puja.

英文词源

juggernaut
juggernaut: [17] Hindi Jagganath is a title of Krishna, one of the avatars, or incarnations, of the god Vishnu, the Preserver. It comes from Sanskrit Jagganātha, a compound of jagat- ‘world’ and nāthás ‘lord’. It is applied also to a large wagon on which an image of the god is carried in procession (notably in an annual festival in Puri, a town in the northeastern Indian state of Orissa).

It used to be said, apocryphally, that worshippers of Krishna threw themselves under the wheels of the wagon in an access of religious ecstasy, and so juggernaut came to be used metaphorically in English for an ‘irresistible crushing force’: ‘A neighbouring people were crushed beneath the worse than Jaggernaut car of wild and fierce democracy’, J W Warter, Last of the Old Squires 1854.

The current application to large heavy lorries is prefigured as long ago as 1841 in William Thackeray’s Second Funeral of Napoleon (‘Fancy, then, the body landed at day-break and transferred to the car; and fancy the car, a huge Juggernaut of a machine’); but it did not become firmly established until the late 1960s.
juggernaut (n.)
1630s, "huge wagon bearing an image of the god Krishna," especially that at the town of Puri, drawn annually in procession in which (apocryphally) devotees allowed themselves to be crushed under its wheels in sacrifice. Altered from Jaggernaut, a title of Krishna (an incarnation of Vishnu), from Hindi Jagannath, literally "lord of the world," from Sanskrit jagat "world" (literally "moving," present participle of *jagati "he goes," from PIE *gwa- "to go, come" (see come (v.)) + natha-s "lord, master," from nathate "he helps, protects," from PIE *na- "to help." The first European description of the festival is by Friar Odoric (c. 1321). Figurative sense of "anything that demands blind devotion or merciless sacrifice" is from 1854.

双语例句

1. The group became a sales juggernaut in the commodity options business.
这个集团成为了商品期权交易市场的销售巨头。
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2. The Juggernaut Firepower at Heroic Level is something to be noted.
英雄级别神像得火力需要特别提及.
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3. Clinton lost her last major opportunity to stop the Obama juggernaut.
他的战绩几乎抵消了克林顿当天在俄亥俄州取得的胜利.
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4. Poppy: Oh no there's a juggernaut, get down!
波比: 哦,不,那儿有个神像, 快下来!
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5. Juggernaut: Bacis weapon attack power against vehicles reduced by 25 % . Bombardment ability wasn't affected.
神像机甲: 对车辆伤害下降25%,但是炮击技能威力不变.
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