高尔基

高爾基
Gāo'ěrjī
proper noun #81,574

Meanings

  1. 1 Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), Russian writer
  2. 2 Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian scientist after whom the Golgi apparatus is named

Examples

HSK 4
Wǒ xiǎoshíhou dú guo Gāo'ěrjī de 《 Tóngnián 》.
I read Gorky's My Childhood when I was little.
HSK 6
Yìdàlì kēxuéjiā Gāo'ěrjī zài xìbāo lǐ fāxiàn le yì zhǒng jiégòu, hòulái jiù yòng tā de míngzi mìngmíng.
The Italian scientist Golgi found a structure in the cell, which was later named after him.

Tips

culture
Gorky, Russian for 'bitter', was a pen name. His trilogy 《童年》, 《在人间》 and 《我的大学》 is standard school reading in China, as is his prose poem 《海燕》, 'The Song of the Stormy Petrel', which ends 让暴风雨来得更猛烈些吧, 'let the storm rage harder!'
usage
In biology, 高尔基体 or 高尔基复合体 is the Golgi apparatus, named after Golgi. The scientist and the writer share a Chinese name only because their names sound alike.

Stroke Order

高 gāo
尔 ěr
基 jī