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.- 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 have always felt like a changeling born into the wrong family.
英英释义
noun
- a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
- a person of subnormal intelligence
双语例句
- They care little for the machinations and politics of "ground folk", and they rarely interfere with changeling society.
它们对“地面人类”的诡计和政治不感兴趣，因此他们几乎不干扰低能级社会的事物。 - I finished watching Changeling this evening.
我今天晚上看完了电影《换子疑云》。 - 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。 - Take you with her, pitiful changeling?
带你跟她一起去，可怜的三心二意的人！ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。