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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.
A juggler is someone who keeps objects moving in the airjuggler是讓東西在空中一直動的人 — balls, clubs, rings, sometimes flaming torches ——球、棒子、圈圈，有時候還有燃燒的火把—— catching and throwing so that several things are flying at once接住又丟出去，讓好幾樣東西同時飛在空中 The usual picture is a circus or a street show一般想到的畫面是馬戲團或街頭表演 The verb is juggle; the person is a juggler動詞是juggle，做這件事的人是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.
English also stretches the word英文也會延伸這個字的用法 if you 'juggle' two jobs or three children如果你同時「juggle」兩份工作或三個小孩 you keep several things going at once你是同時讓好幾件事運轉著 and people may call you a juggler in that looser sense這種比較鬆散的意思下，人們也可能叫你juggler
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.
Though actually, the older history is mixed不過實際上，它更早的歷史有點複雜 The word is juggle + -er這個字是juggle加上-er but it also comes down from Old English and from Old French jongleur但它也源自古英文和古法文的jongleur which meant a wandering entertainer意思是四處遊走的表演者 — not only a person who throws balls, but a minstrel or a trickster——不只是拋球的人，也可以是吟遊詩人或耍花招的人 So juggler and jongleur are doublets所以juggler和jongleur是一對「雙生詞」 two words that started as one and split也就是本來是同一個字，後來分裂成兩個
Today, if you say juggler, people picture the balls in the air unless you make the metaphor clear.
Today, if you say juggler今天如果你說juggler people picture the balls in the air人們想到的是空中飛的球 unless you make the metaphor clear除非你把比喻講清楚
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.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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)/
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。