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gas·light noun /ˈɡæslaɪt/ /ˈɡæslaɪt/ - [uncountable] light produced from burning gas煤气灯光
- In the gaslight she looked paler than ever.在煤气灯光下她显得比以往任何时候都苍白。
- The play carries us back to a Victorian London of slums and gaslight.该剧将我们带回到充满贫民窟和煤气灯的维多利亚时代的伦敦。
(also gas lamp) [countable] a lamp in the street or in a house, that produces light from burning gas煤气灯
gas·light verb /ˈɡæslaɪt/ /ˈɡæslaɪt/ - gaslight somebody to make somebody believe untrue things in order to control them, especially that they have imagined or been wrong about what has really happened使某人相信不真实的事情以控制他们，尤其是他们对实际发生的事情的想象或错误
- He lied to his wife and then gaslighted her by making her think she was the one being unreasonable.他对他的妻子撒了谎，然后让她认为是她不讲道理，从而对她进行了煤气灯攻击。
Topics Crime and punishmentc2Word Originfrom the storyline of the film Gaslight (1944), in which a man makes his wife believe that she is going insane
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