| 释义 |
‖ bambino|bamˈbino|
[It., dim. of bambo silly; the same root is found in L. bambalio dolt, blockhead, Gr. βαµβαίνειν, βαµβαλίζειν to stammer.]
A child, a baby; spec. an image of the infant Jesus in swaddling-clothes, exhibited at Christmas in churches in Italy.
1761Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) III. xiv. 302 When a state-orator has..hid his bambino in his mantle so cunningly. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxxiii, I'll bring you some breakfast, and show you the bambino. 1866Howells Venet. Life xvii. 258 A hideous Bambino, and a Madonna in crinoline. |