c. 1600, "Odyssey," from Latin Odyssea, from Greek Odysseia, name of the Homeric epic poem of ancient Greece, relating the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the Trojan War. Figurative sense of "long, adventurous journey" is first recorded 1889.
实用例句
1. The Odyssey tells what happened to the Greek heroes after the sack of Troy.
《奥德赛》讲述的是在特洛伊被洗劫一空之后发生在希腊英雄们身上的故事。来自柯林斯例句
2. Note how Telemachus in the Odyssey silences his mother.
