changeling
changeling 英 [ˈtʃeɪndʒlɪŋ] 美 [ˈtʃendʒlɪŋ]
n. 低能儿；矮小丑陋的小孩；暗中被偷换而留下的丑怪小孩
名词复数:changelings
- A changeling is a child who is suspected to not be a couple’s real child. As the myth goes, a changeling was substituted by fairies.
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- n. 低能儿；矮小丑陋的小孩；暗中被偷换而留下的丑怪小孩
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1. Or better yet, I am a changeling—a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do.
更好的说法是，我是一个换生灵——顾名思义，这个词指明了我们要做的事和想做的事。
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2. Decades as a changeling had molded my appetites and energies, but she was all too human, growing heavier with each passing season.
数十年的换生灵生活塑造了我的胃口和精力，但她是个十足的人类，年年都在发福。
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3. Japanese writers Kenzaburo Oe ('The Changeling') and Yoko Ogawa ('Hotel Iris') could not attend and were represented by the translators of their books, Deborah Boehm and Stephen Snyder, respectively.
《被偷换的孩子》(The Changeling)的作者大江健三郎(Kenzaburo Oe)以及《虹彩酒店》的作者小川洋子(Yoko Ogawa)未能露面，分别由各自作品的译者黛博拉�波姆和史蒂芬�斯奈德代为出席。
- 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, strange, or ugly) superstitiously believed to have been left by the faeries in place of a beautiful or charming one they have stolen away is from 1580s. An earlier word for it was oaf or auf.
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