argus-eyed

形容始终保持警惕、密切观察周围情况的；像有许多双眼睛一样警觉。

💡 记忆钩子

想象希腊神话中的阿耳戈斯长着许多只眼睛，随时有眼睛睁着，所以 argus-eyed 就从“眼睛很多”引申为“始终警惕、严密监视”。

📝 学习建议

不要把它只理解为“眼睛很大”或“视力很好”；它强调的是警觉和持续观察。

📖 中文释义

adj

core 始终警惕的

📖 像神话中有许多只眼睛的阿耳戈斯一样，始终睁着“眼睛”观察和防备，不轻易漏掉任何动静。它既可以形容人，也可以形容对风险或变化保持高度留意的状态。

💡 常用作定语，放在名词前，构成“argus-eyed + 人或机构”等结构。这个词语气较正式或文学化，常用于描写守卫、监督者或严密监控的系统。不要将其误用为“看得清楚”或“眼神锐利”的意思。

The argus-eyed guard noticed the movement near the gate.

那个始终警惕的守卫注意到了大门附近的动静。

An argus-eyed editor checked every figure in the report.

一位极其警觉的编辑检查了报告中的每一个数字。

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 2 组

carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger; ; ;

同义词集: argus-eyed open-eyed vigilant wakeful

a policy of open-eyed awareness

the vigilant eye of the town watch

there was a watchful dignity in the room

a watchful parent with a toddler in tow

近似: alert, watchful

having very keen vision

同义词集: argus-eyed hawk-eyed keen-sighted lynx-eyed quick-sighted sharp-eyed sharp-sighted

quick-sighted as a cat

近似: sighted

🌳 词源

源自古希腊神话人物阿耳戈斯（Argus），传说他有许多只眼睛。

Argus + eye + -ed, a parasynthetic formation (compare blue-eyed, eagle-eyed). From Argus Panoptes (Ἄργος Πανόπτης (Árgos Panóptēs, “all-seeing Argus”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) + ὄπτης (óptēs, “one who sees”)), a many-eyed giant of Greek mythology who served Hera as a watchman. Set to guard Io, a priestess whom Zeus had transformed into a heifer, Argus kept unceasing watch because some of his hundred eyes always remained open; he was eventually lulled asleep and slain by Hermes, after which Hera set his eyes into the tail of the peacock. His name became proverbial for unsleeping watchfulness, whence the adjective. Attested since before 1500. Compare the roughly contemporaneous Argus-like (from 1597), and the unrelated-in-sense but same-eponym argus (“a butterfly marked with eyespots”).

🔄 变式

more Argus-eyed compar most Argus-eyed superl

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