| 单词 | Rumpelstiltskin |
| 释义 | Rumpelstiltskin (once / 99322 pages) n WORD FAMILY Rumpelstiltskin USAGE EXAMPLESHer ability to spin offense out of the thinnest strands of “thunder-stealing” rivals Rumpelstiltskin’s ability to spin straw into gold. Slate(Nov 02, 2016) For a moment Gilly was reminded of the story of Rumpelstiltskin. Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins(1978) Just as Rumpelstiltskin spun gold from straw, scores of new companies are trying to spin profits out of food waste. New York Times(May 24, 2016) n a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself Exp character, fictional character, fictitious character an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) |
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