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单词 alter ego
释义
alter egoal‧ter e‧go /ˌæltər ˈiːɡəʊ, ˌɔːl- $ ˌæltər ˈiːɡoʊ, ˌɒːl-/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINalter ego
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin ‘other I’
Examples
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  • During the past couple of years, Jerry had practically become his younger alter ego.
  • Equally Odette and her alter ego Odile attract the prince less through their enchanted beauty than through their artlessness.
  • He was not much closer to Belafonte, whose alter ego he played in the show.
  • Margara seems very much the alter ego of her creator.
1 somebody’s alter ego an invented person that you use to represent part of your character that is very different from your usual one:  Gissing used his fictional alter ego to attack Victorian morals.2someone you trust and who has similar opinions, attitudes etc:  Mrs Reagan was widely regarded as the president’s alter ego.
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