英语单词 | genie |
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英美音标 | 英 ['dʒiːni] 美 ['dʒiːni] |
中文释义 | n.妖怪;鬼 |
英语例句 | (1) He found an old lamp, rubbed it, and a genie came out. (2) In the Arabian Nights there is a magical lamp from which Aladdin summoned a genie. (3) The genie couldn't do that so he set the wise man free. |
中文例句 | (1) 他发现一盏古老的灯 (2) 《天方夜谭》中有一盏神奇的灯,阿拉丁可以从中召唤出一个妖怪。 (3) 魔鬼没有办法,他只好放了那个聪明的男人。 |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](阿拉伯和波斯神话故事中的)精灵,魔仆 In stories from Arabia and Persia, a genie is a spirit which appears and disappears by magic and obeys the person who controls it. 2 [PHRASE 短语]魔仆出瓶,事已发生(尤指产生负面影响) If you say that the genie is out of the bottle or that someone has let the genie out of the bottle, you mean that something has happened which has made a great and permanent change in people's lives, especially a bad change. [V inflects]
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