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warlock
🇺🇸 /wˈɔɹlˌɔk/
🇬🇧 /ˈwɔː.lɒk/
warlock指使用魔法的人,传统上特指男性巫师,现代奇幻作品中也可泛指不分性别的魔法师。
💡 记忆钩子
把warlock想成一个背弃誓约、转而使用黑暗魔法的人:最初的核心形象是“男性巫师”,后来在现代奇幻语境中扩大成一般的魔法使用者。
📝 学习建议
- 不要把warlock只理解成普通的“巫师”;在传统或带历史色彩的语境中,它通常暗示男性,有时还带有邪恶或黑暗魔法的联想。
- 先记住“男性巫师”这一传统义,再掌握现代奇幻作品中“不分性别的魔法师”这一扩大用法。
📖 中文释义
noun
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core 男性巫师📖 指会使用魔法的男性,常让人联想到黑暗魔法、邪恶力量或与恶魔结盟的巫师。这是这个词较传统、较典型的形象。💡 常用模式是“a warlock”或“the warlock”,后面可接人物身份或行为的描述。这个义项主要见于传说、历史叙事和奇幻作品,通常明确指男性,并可能含有负面色彩。不要把它机械地当作所有“巫师”的普通翻译。The villagers believed that the old man was a warlock.村民们相信那个老人是个男巫。The warlock raised his hand and summoned a storm.那个男巫抬起手,召来了一场暴风雨。
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common 魔法使用者📖 在现代奇幻作品中,warlock也可以泛指会使用魔法的人,不论其性别;此时重点是其魔法身份,而不是男性身份。这一用法仍可能暗示较黑暗或特殊的魔法传统。💡 常用模式是“a warlock”表示某类魔法职业或身份,也可与表示能力、阵营和所属组织的短语连用。这个义项主要出现在奇幻小说、游戏和影视作品中,具体是否带有邪恶意味要看作品设定。看到女性角色被称为warlock时,不必自动判定为用词错误,因为现代作品常采用这一泛指用法。especiallyIn the game, each warlock can choose a different school of magic.在这款游戏中,每个魔法师都可以选择不同的魔法流派。
warlocks
plural
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 1 组
a male witch or demon
同义词集:
warlock
上位: witch
🌳 词源
源自古英语中表示“背叛者、说谎者”的词,字面与“背弃誓约”有关;后来发展出“巫师”的含义。词源并非来自“咒语”一词的另一种说法。
From Middle English warloghe, warlowe, warloȝe, from Old English wǣrloga (“traitor, deceiver”, literally “truce-breaker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wārulogō (“liar”), equivalent to Old English wǣr (“covenant, truce, pact, promise”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁- (“true”); whence also Latin vērus) + loga (“liar”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô, related to Old English lēogan (whence English lie). The hard -ck ending originated in Scottish and Northern English, like the sense "male magic-user" (from the notion that such men were in league with the Devil and had thus broken their baptismal vows / betrayed Christianity). Cognate with Old Saxon wārlogo (“liar, unfaithful or insidious one”).
A few writers alternatively propose a derivation from Old Norse varðlokkur (“incantations, charms”, literally “ward songs”), but as the OED notes, this is implausible due to the extreme rarity of the Norse word, the semantic difference, and because forms without hard -k, which are consistent with the Old English etymology (“traitor”), are attested earlier than forms with -k, and forms with -ð- are not attested.
🔄 变式
warlocks
plural
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