| 单词 | Svengali |
| 释义 | Svengali From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishOccultSvengaliSven‧ga‧li /svenˈɡɑːli/ noun [countable]ROa man who has the power to control people’s minds and make them do bad or immoral thingsExamples from the CorpusSvengali• Firstly by the theatre; secondly by what he called his Pygmalion, even his Svengali, complex.Origin Svengali (1900-2000) Svengali, character who uses hypnotism to get control over people in the book Trilby (1894) by George Du Maurier |
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