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aegis

\EE-jis\, noun:
1. Protection; support.
2. Sponsorship; patronage.
3. Guidance, direction, or control.
4. A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Zeus.
名词 n.
1.保护;庇护
2.主办;赞助

It is this ideal of the human under the aegis of something higher which seems to me to provide the strongest counterpressure against the fragmentation and barbarization of our world.
~Ted J. Smith III (Editor), In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

A third round of talks is scheduled to begin on May 23rd in New York under the aegis of the United Nations.
~"Denktash declared head after rival withdraws", Irish Times, April 21, 2000

In real life, Lang's father was commercially astute and fantastically hardworking, and under his aegis the construction business flourished.
~Patrick McGilligan, Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast

Aegis derives from the Greek aigis, the shield of Zeus, from aix, aig-, "a goat," many primitive shields being goatskin-covered.



We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
                                                                                                                                                                                     ~Mother Teresa

我们常觉得自己所做的，微小有如海水中的一滴，但是少了这一滴，海洋的水就减少了。
                                                                                                                             ——德兰修女



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