changeling

英 [ˈtʃeɪndʒlɪŋ]

美 [ˈtʃeɪndʒlɪŋ]

n.  (尤指故事中被仙女)偷换后留下的孩童

复数：changelings　

BNC.36756 / COCA.22591

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指故事中被仙女）偷换后留下的孩童
  a child who is believed to have been secretly left in exchange for another, especially (in stories) by fairies

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (常指神话传说中)被(仙女)调换的婴儿
  Achangelingis a child who was put in the place of another child when they were both babies. In stories changelings were often taken or left by fairies.
  1. I have always felt like a changeling born into the wrong family.
     我一直感觉自己小时候被调包过，不是这一家的人。

英英释义

noun

• a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
• a person of subnormal intelligence
  Synonym:idiotimbecilecretinmoronhalf-witretard

双语例句

• Take you with her, pitiful changeling?
  带你跟她一起去，可怜的三心二意的人！
• 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。
• Recruitment of eligible subjects is of paramount importance and probably the most difficult and changeling aspect of a clinical trial.
  招募合格的受试者在临床试验过程中是至关重要的，而且可能是最困难、最富有挑战性的工作。
• I finished watching Changeling this evening.
  我今天晚上看完了电影《换子疑云》。
• I have always felt like a changeling born into the wrong family.
  我一直感觉自己小时候被调包过，不是这一家的人。
• And, get this, never once does Haynes mention the name of the mesmeric changeling at his film's center.
  还有，还有一件事，海因斯在电影里面一次也没有提到那个催眠大众的名字。
• 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。
• This is true in the tales about the Changeling.
  这是无论在对低能儿的故事。
• It couldnt be a random selection. A changeling must decide on a child the same age as he was when he had been kidnapped.
  这不能随意选择，换生灵找到的孩子必须与他自己被绑架时的年龄一致。
• Thirty years ago, in1949, I was a changeling who became a human again.
  三十年前，我就从一个换生灵重新变成了人类。