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单词 hyde
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Hyden.

Brit. /hʌɪd/, U.S. /haɪd/
Etymology: < Hyde, the name of the evil personality assumed by Dr. Jekyll in R. L. Stevenson's story, ‘Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ (1886).
Used allusively in reference to the evil side of a person's character. (Cf. Jekyll n.)
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1887 Puck (N.Y.) 16 Nov. 188 (caption) Is that you, Livingston?.. No, m'dearsh, it'sh Doct' Hyde.
1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xiv. 192 But we encountered surprisingly few Hydes. Nearly all were Jekylls.
1951 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory viii. 120 One ribald and agile boy (could it be I after all—the Hyde of my Jekyll?) managed to silhouette his foot.
1960 Encounter Sept. 9/1 Normally we let Hyde loose only when for some reason he is socially acceptable. The Saturnalia existed to satisfy his demands.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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