genie

noun

/ˈdʒiːni/

(plural genies, genii

/ˈdʒiːniaɪ/

)

Idioms

(in Arabian stories) a spirit with magic powers, especially one that lives in a bottle or a lamp（阿拉伯故事中会魔法的妖怪，尤指住在瓶子或灯里的）精灵，镇尼 synonym djinn
词源mid 17th cent. (denoting a guardian or protective spirit): from French génie, from Latin genius ‘attendant spirit present from one's birth, innate ability or inclination’, from the root of gignere ‘beget’. Génie was adopted in the current sense by the 18th-cent. French translators of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, because of its resemblance in form and sense to Arabic jinnī ‘jinnee’.

Idioms

let the genie out of the bottle

to do something that has a big effect and after which it is very difficult or impossible to go back to how things were before精灵：做一件大事，之后很难或不可能回到以前的样子
- When guns were invented, the genie was let out of the bottle.当枪被发明时，精灵被放出瓶子。
This idiom can be expressed in various different ways. Other versions include the genie is out of the bottle and opposite form put the genie back in the bottle. Many people realized the genie was out of the bottle and that free music and movie downloads were here to stay. • The world has failed to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle.

词汇	genie
释义	genie noun /ˈdʒiːni/ /ˈdʒiːni/ (plural genies, genii /ˈdʒiːniaɪ/ /ˈdʒiːniaɪ/ ) Idioms (in Arabian stories) a spirit with magic powers, especially one that lives in a bottle or a lamp（阿拉伯故事中会魔法的妖怪，尤指住在瓶子或灯里的）精灵，镇尼 synonym djinn 词源mid 17th cent. (denoting a guardian or protective spirit): from French génie, from Latin genius ‘attendant spirit present from one's birth, innate ability or inclination’, from the root of gignere ‘beget’. Génie was adopted in the current sense by the 18th-cent. French translators of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, because of its resemblance in form and sense to Arabic jinnī ‘jinnee’. Idioms let the genie out of the bottle to do something that has a big effect and after which it is very difficult or impossible to go back to how things were before精灵：做一件大事，之后很难或不可能回到以前的样子 When guns were invented, the genie was let out of the bottle.当枪被发明时，精灵被放出瓶子。 This idiom can be expressed in various different ways. Other versions include the genie is out of the bottle and opposite form put the genie back in the bottle. Many people realized the genie was out of the bottle and that free music and movie downloads were here to stay. • The world has failed to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle.
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