英:[ˈtʃeɪndʒlɪŋ]
美:[ˈtʃendʒlɪŋ]
英:[ˈtʃeɪndʒlɪŋ]
美:[ˈtʃendʒlɪŋ]
change·ling
cheInj lIng
复数:changelings
1550年代,“喜欢改变的人”,源自 change(名词)+ 小型后缀 -ling。 “被偷走的人或物留下的人或物”一词来源于1560年代; 特指被超自然地认为是妖精留下的婴儿或幼儿(通常是愚蠢,奇怪或丑陋),代替了他们偷走的美丽或迷人的孩子,这一说法来源于1580年代。它的早期词汇是 oaf 或 auf。
The first known use of changeling was in 1534
change1 of 2verb
to make or become different : alter
to give a different position, course, or direction to
to replace with another : switch, exchange
change places
to give or receive an equal amount of money in usually smaller units of value or in a foreign currency
change a $10 bill
to put fresh clothes or covering on
change a bed
to put on different clothes
change2 of 2noun
the act, process, or result of changing a change for the better
a change of seasons
a fresh set of clothes
money in small units of value received in exchange for an equal amount in larger units
money returned when a payment is more than the amount due
money in coins
money sense 1a
cost a large chunk of change
changeovernoun
transition entry 1 sense 1
changelingnoun
a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
1 Little human changelings, raised in Faerie, but not educated with the Gentry as we are.
2 What has been your biggest disappointment?Realising that I wasn't a fairy changeling child and that David Bowie wasn't the fairy king.
3 In one scene, echoing the show’s “Black Stockings” episode, audiences are drawn into a conflict as a husband decides his wife has been replaced by a changeling, with devastating consequences.
4 Their first four children are appropriately adorable, but their fifth child is a violent oddball and possibly a changeling.
5 Mak's wife tries to convince them that it's a changeling, but they're not fooled.
6 From sinister stories of changelings to tales of water hags such as Jenny Greenteeth, this rich and fascinating book can be pored over or simply dipped into.
7 Here the beings are the trolls, goblins, changelings and other beasts living beneath a fictional town called Arcadia, whose dry, paved riverbeds place it in the general vicinity of Los Angeles.
8 “The Winter’s Tale,” one of Shakespeare’s final works, is an odd play: a devastating portrait of jealousy that ends in redemption, and a changeling’s tale that moves from joy to tragedy and back again.
9 Unless the Founders themselves chose to withhold the cure from certain changelings.
10 Superstition around fairies lingered in rural Ireland then, and Cleary recruited Bridget’s family to help drive out this mischief-making changeling.
11 I watched half of the movie Changeling this evening.
今天晚上我看了电影《换子疑云》一半的内容。
12 Freddy and the other changelings gobble down crisps, act out apocalypse with Lego figures, rage at adults and bring impossible news.
13 I thought such restraint was a smart and visually refreshing departure from the typical evil changeling narrative.
14 No matter how old or young, the object is to deceive the parents into think-ing that this changeling is actually their child.
而无论他们年龄大小,我们的目标是骗过孩子的父母,让他们相信换生灵的的确确是他们的亲骨肉。
15 Take you with her, pitiful changeling?
带你跟她一起去,可怜的三心二意的人!
16 After a local eccentric warns Sarah that her son is “not him,” she suspects he’s been replaced by a changeling — perhaps sprung from the enormous sinkhole on their property.
17 The cast and crew are required to be vaccinated; an actor who played the changeling child in “Midsummer” was taken out of the cast because he was too young to be vaccinated.
18 He seems, indeed, to be a figure in the unrealistic literature he reads – a changeling, a prince, a person with some as yet unknown but redemptive identity.
19 My apologies, a changeling took over my body.
20 It was the latter attribute that caused him to fall for the wrong woman, a shifty changeling who conned him into fronting a spice-mining scheme.
正是后者导致他爱上了一个不该爱的女人——这个心怀鬼胎的变形人在一场香料矿阴谋中把他推向前台。