| 单词 | svengali |
| 释义 | Svengali in British English (svɛnˈɡɑːlɪ) noun a person who controls another's mind, usually with sinister intentions Word origin after a character in George Du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894)Svengali in American English (svɛnˈgɑli; sfɛnˈgɑli) noun a person who dominates or manipulates another, esp. with evil intentions Word origin from the evil hypnotist, Svengali, in the novel Trilby (1894) by du Maurier (sense 2) |
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