| 释义 |
geniege‧nie /ˈdʒiːni/ noun [countable]   genieOrigin: 1600-1700 French génie, from Arabic jinniy - And then the genie told him about the magician disguised as the holy woman.
- As a child of the 1960s and 1970s, the nuclear genie still looms large for me as a powerful analogy.
- The genie is out of the bottle.
- The creative genius of artist, composer, or writer is a kind of genie.
- The princess passed on her request to Aladdin, who passed it on to the genie.
- There is no genie to snap its fingers and whiplash me out of this world I am living in.
- Well, when he has his own personal genie, he has options.
- When they ran out of food, they asked the genie for more silver dishes, which they sold to buy food.
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