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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Our changeling spies followed him and raised the alarm, and I transformed myself into his perfect facsimile.
  我们的换生灵密探跟踪他并发出召集令，我把自己变成他完美的复制品。
• I finished watching Changeling this evening.
  我今天晚上看完了电影《换子疑云》。
• 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。
• 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。
• It is for this reason that they have come down from their mountains and rejoined changeling society in large numbers.
  由于这个原因，它们已经开始从它们的山地上下来重新加入为数众多的低能级社会里来。
• 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。
• He still wanted to harm the pious queen, and he took the letter, putting in its place one that stated that the queen had brought a changeling into the world.
  再说那个恶魔一直想伤害好心的王后。这时，他将另一封信放进信使的口袋里，上面说王后生了一个妖怪。