changelings

changelings

美 [?t?e?nd?l??] 　英 ['t?e?nd?l??]

• n.(迷信說法中被仙女)偷換后留下的丑孩子；變節者
• 網絡調換兒；偷換的孩子；丑娃

詞形變化

復數：changelings  

英漢解釋

n.	1. (迷信說法中被仙女)偷換后留下的丑孩子,矮小丑陋的人[動物] 2. 〈古〉低能兒 3. 〈古〉見異思遷的人;不忠實的人,變節者 4. (集郵)顏色起化學變化的郵票

英英解釋

n.	1. in stories, a child believed to have been left by fairies when they stole the real child from its parents

例句

My fellow changelings and I had been spying on the boy for months, so I knew the contours of my new home at the edge of the forest.

我和我的換生靈同伴們監視了這個男孩好幾個月，所以我在森林邊就知道新家的輪廓。

For the past century, adults had been total strangers, and life among the changelings had distorted my perspective.

在過去的一個世紀中，成人是徹底的陌路人，而與換生靈共處的生活也已經扭曲了我的視角。

Elementary science and history revealed a way of thinking about the world that differed from my experience among the changelings.

初級自然科學和歷史顯露的是思考這個世界的方式，這和我在換生靈中的生活經歷不一樣。

The changelings select carefully, for such opportunities might come along only once a decade or so.

換生靈挑選對象很仔細，因為這種機會大概十年左右才有一次。

I expected civilization, but they were worse than the changelings.

我期待的是文明，但他們比換生靈更糟糕。