Svengali

Related topics: Occult

Sven·ga·li /svenˈɡɑːli/ noun [countableC]

ROa man who has the power to control people’s minds and make them do bad or immoral things 控制别人思想并令其作恶的人，斯文加利式人物

Examples from the Corpus

Svengali• Firstly by the theatre; secondly by what he called his Pygmalion, even his Svengali, complex.

Origin Svengali

(1900-2000) Svengali, character who uses hypnotism to get control over people in the book Trilby (1894) by George Du Maurier

单词	Svengali
释义	Svengali Related topics: Occult Sven·ga·li /svenˈɡɑːli/ noun [countableC] ROa man who has the power to control people’s minds and make them do bad or immoral things 控制别人思想并令其作恶的人，斯文加利式人物 Examples from the Corpus Svengali• Firstly by the theatre; secondly by what he called his Pygmalion, even his Svengali, complex. Origin Svengali (1900-2000) Svengali, character who uses hypnotism to get control over people in the book Trilby (1894) by George Du Maurier
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