- 1雜耍藝人；拋接表演者（也可比喻同時應付很多事的人）
A juggler is someone who keeps objects moving in the air — balls, clubs, rings, sometimes flaming torches — catching and throwing so that several things are flying at once. The usual picture is a circus or a street show. The verb is juggle; the person is a juggler. English also stretches the word: if you “juggle” two jobs or three children, you keep several things going at once, and people may call you a juggler in that looser sense. Though actually, the older history is mixed. The word is juggle + -er, but it also comes down from Old English and from Old French jongleur, which meant a wandering — not only a person who throws balls, but a minstrel or a . So juggler and jongleur are : two words that started as one and split. Today, if you say juggler, people picture the balls in the air unless you make the metaphor clear.
組成juggle + -er. From Middle English jogeler / jogelour, partly from Old English ġeogolere (“juggler; magician; wizard”) and partly from Anglo-Norman jogelour / Old French jongleur. Doublet of jongleur.
同家族的字
- jugglethe verb; juggler is the person who does it
- jongleurattested doublet: the older French entertainer word from the same source
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
jugglernoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒʌɡl̩ə(ɹ)/
- 1
A person who practices juggling (trick of throwing and catching balls or similar).
- Coming forward and seating himself on the ground in his white dress and tightened turban, the chief of the Indian Jugglers begins with tossing up two brass balls, which is what any of us could do, and concludes with keeping up four at the same time, which is what none of us could do to save our lives, nor if we were to take our whole lives to do it in.
- The waiters, commanded by Jules, moved softly across the thick Oriental rugs, balancing their trays with the dexterity of jugglers, and receiving and executing orders with that air of profound importance of which only really first-class waiters have the secret.
- 2
obsoleteA person who performs tricks using sleight of hand, a conjurer, prestidigitator.
- They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: / Darke vvorking Sorcerers that change the minde: / Soule-killing VVitches, that deforme the bodie: […]
- […] Along with them / They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, / A mere anatomy, a mountebank, / A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller, / A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, / A dead-looking man: this pernicious slave, / Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer […]
- 3
datedA magician or wizard.
- So far we may follow the 'clerk,' but he subsequently shows himself to be a juggler, and not a worker by regular natural science.
- The contents of the Sūtra is a legend of a juggler Bhadra. Bhadra, due to his magical tricks, intended to deceive the Buddha and invited him to a magic feast which was charmed into being on a refuse dump.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。