- 1木偶、布偶（玩具、戲偶）；傀儡（比喻被操控、沒有實權的政府或人物，這是新聞中常見的用法）
A toy figure of a person or animal that you move by hand or with strings, often used in children's shows. It's also used seriously and a bit critically for a person or government that looks like they're in charge but is actually being controlled by someone else behind the scenes — 'a puppet government.'
From the word’s history
From Middle English popet, probably from Middle French poupette, ultimately from Latin pupa 'doll, puppet'.
中古英文 popet，可能來自法文 poupette，源頭是拉丁文 pupa。
組成from an old word for 'doll' — the same old root also gives us 'pupil' (the small dark part of your eye), because people once compared the tiny reflection you see in someone's eye to a little doll
同家族的字
- pupilshares the same old root meaning 'little doll,' referring to the small reflection seen in someone's eye
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。
puppetnoun/ˈpʌpɪt/
- 1
Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
- 2
A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
- These men , from no worse motive that could be discovered than a thirst after knowledge beyond their sphere , committed burglary upon the barn in which the puppets had been consigned to repose
- Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity. Man was thus virtually a symbolic puppet in the hands of the Roman pantheon.
- 3
obsoleteA poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
- 4
engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
puppetverb/ˈpʌpɪt/
- 1
To control or manipulate like a puppet.
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。