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单词 eunuch
释义
eunucheu‧nuch /ˈjuːnək/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINeunuch
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin eunuchus, from Greek eunouchos, from eune ‘bed’ + echein ‘to be in charge of’
Examples
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  • 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
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