释义 |
eunucheu‧nuch /ˈjuːnək/ noun [countable] eunuchOrigin: 1400-1500 Latin eunuchus, from Greek eunouchos, from eune ‘bed’ + echein ‘to be in charge of’ - I thought at first it was a eunuch or a man in drag.
- Narouz had been angry, first with the girl for playing the fool and then with the eunuch for not finding her.
- Of whom was Isaiah speaking, asked the eunuch, of himself or of some other man?
- Some time after, not having received a reply, they had sent the eunuch to fetch her.
- The eunuch had made a cursory search and then had reported the matter to Prince Narouz.
- The eunuch said, however, that the steersman had finished his work and gone forward before all this happened.
- To be a eunuch was a curse; even the sight of them was defiling to a Brahmin.
- When the girl hadn't come down, his uncle had been angry and sent the eunuch up.
a man whose testicles have been removed, especially someone who guarded a king’s wives in some Eastern countries in the past |