词汇 | witch |
释义 | witch noun[ C ] uk /wɪtʃ/ us /wɪtʃ/ C1 a woman who is believed to have magical powers and who uses them to harm or help other people: 女巫,巫婆 a witch on a broomstick骑着扫把的女巫 Witches were persecuted all over western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century, as it was claimed that they had dealings with the Devil.从15世纪到17世纪,整个西欧的女巫都受到迫害,因为据称她们与魔鬼有来往。 informaldisapproving an unpleasant and ugly woman讨厌且丑陋的女人 In the story, a wicked witch put a curse on the princess for 100 years. The witch put a magic spell on the prince and turned him into a frog.女巫施魔咒将王子变成了青蛙。 The central character is a malevolent witch out for revenge.主角是一个想复仇的恶毒女巫。 The witch cast/put a spell on the prince and he turned into a frog.女巫对王子施了魔法,把他变成了青蛙。 Of course, in the end, the wicked witch gets killed.当然,最后邪恶的巫婆被杀掉了。 People who perform magic or have paranormal abilities alchemist clairvoyant conjurer coven crone escapologist ghostbuster illusionist mage magician oracle psychic seer shaman soothsayer sorcerer sorceress visionary wizard wizardly witch | American Dictionarywitch noun[ C ] us/wɪtʃ/ a woman who is believed to have magical powers and, esp. in stories, uses them to help or harm people Examples of witchwitch In 1570-1, however, the human subterfuge was replaced by 'a wider, more stereotypical malicious use of poisonous grease by witches ' (p. 149). He is clear that this is not an ' ancient religion ' in the sense which most witches still claim. The most vexing problem the witches presented was their destabilising of such terms as 'realistic' and 'fantastic', or 'fatal' and 'trivial'. Women in textbooks are most likely to appear in traditional roles, such as a farmer, or as mythological figures, such as witches. Secondly, there is the group of umfield sites connected with sagas about witches and, occasionally, the devil. In every continent traditions have been recorded in which witches, although operating within set customs of their kind, do so individually and alone. At each harvest, the total number of fruits and the number of fruits infected with witches' broom per plot were recorded. They identified witches, detected thieves and aided lovers. His witches gain a certain strength from having their coarseness so blatant. The mid-twentieth-century critics are offended precisely because they don't want witches to sound trivial. Just as political and religious power are comparable, so too are the actions of covens of witches and exclusive groups of plotters and putschists. At the same time the commission acknowledged that it is difficult to detect witches, as their crimes cannot be witnessed by the naked eye. The two collections of essays present the findings of research into midwives, folk healers, matchmakers, witches and women's religious communities. In other words, they were not real men but first-class witches. Master witches, according to the authors' conclusion, were like other witches. See all examples of witch These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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