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

• 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。
• A changeling girl, age six, so shocked her new parents when she opened her mouth to speak that, thus frightened, they poured hot wax into each others ears and never heard an-other sound.
  一个换生灵女孩，六岁，一开口说话就让她的新父母不堪恐惧，把滚烫的蜡油灌进对方耳朵，从此再也听不到声音。
• This is true in the tales about the Changeling.
  这是无论在对低能儿的故事。
• 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。
• A child who becomes part of our soci-ety might have to wait a century before his turn in the cycle arrives, when he can become a changeling and reenter the human world.
  成为我们中间一分子的那个孩子，或许要等上一个世纪才能轮到他换生，并再次进入人类世界。
• 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。
• 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。
• I finished watching Changeling this evening.
  我今天晚上看完了电影《换子疑云》。
• Take you with her, pitiful changeling?
  带你跟她一起去，可怜的三心二意的人！
• 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。