puppet
英 ['p?p?t]
美['p?p?t]
- n. 木偶；傀儡；受他人操縱的人
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詞態變化
復數:?puppets;
助記提示
1. pupil => pupa "girl, doll" => puppet.
中文詞源
puppet 木偶，傀儡
來自古法語popette,玩具，木偶，來自popet小詞形式，來自拉丁語pupa,小女孩，詞源同pupa,pupil.引申詞義傀儡。
英文詞源
- puppet
- puppet: [16] Puppet, like its variant poppet [14], originally meant ‘doll’. It comes from Old French poupette, a diminutive form of *poupe ‘doll’. This in turn came from Vulgar Latin *puppa, a descendant of Latin pūpa ‘girl, doll’ (source of English pupa and pupil). The application to a ‘moving doll controlled by strings’ developed in the 16th century; in the case of poppet it has since died out, but it has taken over puppet completely.
=> pupil - puppet (n.)
- "doll moved by strings or wires" (later applied to puppets in glove form), 1530s, later form of Middle English popet "doll" (c. 1300; see poppet), from Old French popette "little doll, puppet," diminutive of popee "doll, puppet" (13c., Modern French poupée), from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin pupa "girl; doll" (see pupil (n.1)).
Metaphoric extension to "one whose actions are manipulated by another" first recorded 1540s (as poppet). Puppet show attested from 1650s, earlier puppet-play (1550s). Puppet government is attested from 1884 (in reference to Egypt).
雙語例句
- 1. When the invasion occurred he ruled as a puppet of the occupiers.
- 外敵入侵時，他作為占領者的傀儡行使統治。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The occupying forces set up a puppet government .
- 占領軍建立了一個傀儡政府。
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. We watched a performance which included a puppet show and acrobatics.
- 我們觀看了一場演出,內容有木偶和雜技.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The whole village was burnt down by the puppet troops.
- 整個村子都被偽軍焚毀了.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 5. He jerked the string and the puppet jumped.
- 他猛一拉繩子,木偶就跳了起來.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
