依洛伊

Yīluòyī

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Meanings

1 Eloi (the gentle, surface-dwelling humanoid race in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine; also a transliteration of the masculine name Eloi)

Characters

to depend on; transliteration

(name of a river); transliteration

he/she (literary); transliteration

Examples

依洛伊人住在地面上。

Yīluòyī rén zhù zài dìmiàn shang.

The Eloi live on the surface.

《时间机器》里有依洛伊和莫洛克两个种族。

《Shíjiān Jīqì》 lǐ yǒu Yīluòyī hé Mòluòkè liǎng ge zhǒngzú.

The Time Machine has two races, the Eloi and the Morlocks.

Tips

culture

The Eloi are one of the two future human races in H.G. Wells's 1895 novel 《时间机器》(The Time Machine) — beautiful, childlike, surface-dwelling, contrasted with the underground Morlocks (莫洛克). 依 ≈ 'E-/I-', 洛 ≈ '-lo-', 伊 ≈ '-i'.

Stroke Order

依 yī

洛 luò

伊 yī