changeling
英 ['t?e?n(d)?l??]
美['t?end?l??]
- n. 低能兒；矮小丑陋的小孩；暗中被偷換而留下的丑怪小孩
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?changelings;
英文詞源
- changeling (n.)
- 1550s, "one given to change," from change (n.) + diminutive suffix -ling. Meaning "person or thing left in place of one secretly taken" is from 1560s; specific reference to an infant or young child (usually stupid or ugly) supposedly left by the faeries in place of one they took is from 1580s. An earlier word for it was oaf or auf.
雙語例句
- 1. I have always felt like a changeling born into the wrong family.
- 我一直感覺自己小時候被調(diào)包過，不是這一家的人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. September a changeling, busy a squirrel a hickory tree, idle a languid brook.
- 九月真是變幻莫測, 忙來如山核桃樹上的松鼠, 閑來卻又象懶散緩流的小溪.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 3. September is a changeling busy as squirrel in a hickory tree, idle as a languid brook.
- 九月忙來如胡桃樹上的松鼠, 閑來如緩緩流淌的溪澗.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)