2012_04_05 Ephebe n. 一個年輕男子; A young man.

Word of the Day for Thursday, April  5, 2012
ephebe \ih-FEEB\, noun:
A young man.
His glance touched their faces lightly as he smiled, a blond ephebe.
 -- James Joyce, Ulysses
The three Florentine Davids, those of Donatello, Verrocchio, and Michelangelo, represent the changes in the ideal of male beauty and the model of an ephebe. They are ever smaller, more strained, girlish.
 -- Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary
The summer before his senior year of college, in 1997, he worked as an intern at The Paris Review. James Linville, who was then the magazine’s editor, recalled Rowan as an “ephebe type, almost Truman Capote-like.”
 -- Lizzie Widdicombe, “The Plagiarist’s Tale,” The New Yorker, Feb. 13, 2012
Ephebe stems from the Greek word for a young man just entering manhood and commencing training for full Athenian citizenship. It comes from the roots ep- meaning "near" and hḗbē meaning "manhood."
一個年輕男子。

他的目光觸動了他們的臉，輕輕地為他笑了，一位金發碧眼的ephebe。
- 詹姆斯·喬伊斯，“尤利西斯”

三佛羅倫薩大衛，多納特洛，韋羅基奧，米開朗基羅的，代表理想的男性美容和模型一個ephebe的變化。他們是越來越小，越來越緊張，少女。
- 1月Kott，莎士比亞我們的當代

之前，他的大學四年級的那個夏天，在1997年，他曾作為實習生在巴黎審查。詹姆斯·林維爾，當時該雜誌的編輯，回顧作為羅文的“ephebe類型，幾乎像杜魯門·卡波特。”
- 麗茲Widdicombe，“剽竊者的故事”，紐約，2月13日，2012年

ephebe源於希臘字從一個年輕人剛剛進入成年，開始為全雅典公民訓練。 “男子漢”從根EP-意思是“近”和Hebe意義。