English Dictionary

porcelain goddess

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɔːsəlɪn ˈɡɒdɛs/

名詞

比喩的用法 ユーモラス文体 慣用表現 単数形

(figuratively) metaphor for a woman, often stressing paleness, delicateness or lack of emotion. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see porcelain, goddess.

日本語の意味

（比喩的に）非常に美しく繊細で、青白さや無表情さを強調する女性のメタファー。 / （文字通りではなく、比喩的に用いられる表現）陶器（ポーセレン）のような、精巧で壊れやすい品質を持つ女性

At the gala she moved through the crowd like a porcelain goddess, all alabaster skin and an unreadable expression.

舞踏会で彼女は陶磁器のように白く繊細な美しさをたたえる女性のように人混みを歩き、肌は白磁のようで表情は読み取れなかった。

意味（1）

(figuratively) metaphor for a woman, often stressing paleness, delicateness or lack of emotion.

It was a breathless whisper from a porcelain goddess, pale cheeks accentuating striking blue eyes and glossy pink lips, full and parted with shallow breaths.

意味（2）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see porcelain, goddess.

In China, there is not a street, nor a shop, nor a palace, nor a hovel, nor a college, nor a poor fisherman's boat, that has not an idol; a carved image of wood, or a porcelain goddess, or a molten divinity of clay, or a literary god of bronze …

意味（3）

(idiomatic, humorous, chiefly in the singular) A toilet bowl.

porcelain goddesses （ plural ）