Cinderella
/ˌsɪndəˈrelə/1
- a girl in various traditional European fairy tales. In the version by Charles Perrault she is exploited as a servant by her family but enabled by a fairy godmother to attend a royal ball. She meets and captivates Prince Charming but has to flee at midnight, leaving the prince to identify her by the glass slipper which she leaves behind.灰姑娘（许多欧洲传统童话中人物; 根据查尔斯·佩罗的版本, 她在家中听人使唤, 受尽欺压, 后遇仙女保护神让她参加王宫舞会, 她邂逅并征服了魅力王子, 但不得不在午夜时逃离, 留下一只水晶鞋, 王子靠了它才找回灰姑娘）。
1.1
- as noun a person or thing of unrecognized or disregarded merit or beauty优点、美丽未被承认或被漠视的人（或物）, 像灰姑娘一样的人（或物）。
1.2
- as noun a neglected aspect of something疏漏：
is research into breast cancer to remain the Cinderella of medicine?
对乳腺癌的研究仍然会是医学的疏漏吗？
词源
from CINDER + the diminutive suffix -ella, on the pattern of French Cendrillon, from cendre 'cinders'.