2012_04_15 Palladium n. safeguard 安全保障

Word of the Day for Sunday, April 15, 2012
palladium \puh-LEY-dee-uhm\, noun:
1. Anything believed to provide protection or safety; safeguard.
2. A statue of Athena, especially one on the citadel of Troy on which the safety of the city was supposed to depend.
3. A rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum; used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties.
 -- Mark Twain, Roughing It
So, representative institutions are the talismanic palladium of the nation, are they? The palladium of the classes that have them, I daresay.
 -- Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke: Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley
Palladium is related to the Greek word pallas meaning "little maiden." The sense of a protective talisman comes from the name of a statue of Athena that guarded the city of Troy.
鈀\\，名詞PUH脈DEE-UHM：

1。相信任何提供保護或安全保障。
2。一個雅典娜雕像，尤其是對一個城市的安全應該依靠特洛伊城。
3。一種罕見的金屬元素，鉑，銀白色，韌性和延展性，難和融合比鉑金更容易;主要用作催化劑和牙科及其他合金。符號：鈀原子重量：106.4原子序數：46;比重：12在20°C。

由陪審團審判是我們的自由的鈀。
- 馬克·吐溫，粗加工

因此，代表機構是國家的護身符鈀，他們呢？鈀類，我敢說。
- 查爾斯·金斯利，奧爾頓洛克：查爾斯·金斯利的小說，詩歌和英皇

鈀是與希臘字帕拉斯，意為“小姑娘”。一個護身符感來自一個把守的特洛伊城的雅典娜雕像的名稱。

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