changelings

英 [ˈtʃeɪndʒlɪŋz]

美

n.  (尤指故事中被仙女)偷换后留下的孩童
changeling的复数

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。

双语例句

• Other parents, upon learning that their child had been replaced by changelings, had their hair turn white overnight, were stunned into catatonia, heart attacks, or sudden death.
  还有一些父母，得知他们的孩子被换生灵替换，一夜白发，有的精神分裂，有的心脏病突发，还有的猝死。
• The changelings select carefully, for such opportunities might come along only once a decade or so.
  换生灵挑选对象很仔细，因为这种机会大概十年左右才有一次。
• In any case, it tops sleeping in a hole in the cold ground, a moldy rabbit skin for your pillow, and the grunts and sighs of a dozen changelings anxious in their dreams.
  不管怎么说，这好过睡在洞里冷冰冰的地上，拿发霉的兔皮当枕头，还有十来个换生灵在不安的睡梦中咕哝和叹气。
• Many tales exist of failed changelings who are uncovered by their presumptive families.
  有很多故事说的是换生灵的失败，身份被所谓的家人揭露了。
• For the past century, adults had been total strangers, and life among the changelings had distorted my perspective.
  在过去的一个世纪中，成人是彻底的陌路人，而与换生灵共处的生活也已经扭曲了我的视角。
• I ex-pected civilization, but they were worse than the changelings.
  我期待的是文明，但他们比换生灵更糟糕。
• Elementary science and history revealed a way of thinking about the world that differed from my experience among the changelings.
  初级自然科学和历史显露的是思考这个世界的方式，这和我在换生灵中的生活经历不一样。
• My fellow changelings and I had been spying on the boy for months, so I knew the contours of my new home at the edge of the forest.
  我和我的换生灵同伴们监视了这个男孩好几个月，所以我在森林边就知道新家的轮廓。
• Although I quit the society of the changelings long ago, I have remained, in a sense, in those dark woods, hiding my true identity from those I love.
  虽然我许久之前就离开了换生灵的社会，但在某种意义上，仍然停留在那片黑森林中，对那些我爱的人隐瞒我真实的身份。