| 单词 | djinn |
| 例句 | To her, this would be the moment that a young woman—nameless, no kids—was caught up in the lair of a vile djinn. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z This would be the moment that Aziz—peeking from between a row of spark plugs—would see her new husband stop up a volcanic rage, as if it was a bottled djinn. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Maybe, like a djinn, he found little corners of the story to hide in. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z This is always a dangerous moment in a story, because the king is not a djinn, and a wish that is an insult can quickly become a curse. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He steals a key ring from the horn of a sleeping djinn and throws it to a mermaid imprisoned on a salt stone at the center of a pink lake. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The joke was that to my seventh grade English class, I had made my father a myth, like djinns, like Rostam, or like Mike Maguffy’s girlfriend from summer camp that nobody else knows. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I would reply, “He is wise indeed,” showing I’m a good guy in the story who believes in God, and not one of those djinns who speak against him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t miss Mrs. Flowers, for she had given me her secret word which called forth a djinn who was to serve me all my life: books. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas in Islam, a djinn can be a trickster or mischievous. Aasif Mandvi talks "Evil," djinns and "the appeal of Trump" despite being hated by GOP leaders 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z As the movie continues, it shifts between the C.G.I.-heavy past and the present, always returning to the djinn and Alithea, who grow progressively close. George Miller Is at the Cannes Film Festival Making ‘Furiosa’ (That’s Right) 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z What's interesting is that Ben goes to some explanation on the show about how a djinn can be good or bad in Islam. Aasif Mandvi talks "Evil," djinns and "the appeal of Trump" despite being hated by GOP leaders 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Because I wasn't a djinn, but I was always mischievous and causing trouble. Aasif Mandvi talks "Evil," djinns and "the appeal of Trump" despite being hated by GOP leaders 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin, this collection of short stories features the works of a diverse, engaging group of writers, each crafting a version of djinn, or genie, folklore. Best science-fiction and fantasy books to read in March 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Everything in the story is true, she told him, except for the djinn. George Miller Is at the Cannes Film Festival Making ‘Furiosa’ (That’s Right) 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z In Ghalia Kabbani's variation on the tale of the Lady of Damascus, the survival of a weaver's child abducted by djinns is poignantly juxtaposed with the defiance of today's Syrian children demanding regime change. Arab Nights – review 2012-11-23T18:57:46Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Observer The djinn is too meek. One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs ? review 2011-08-27T23:06:19Z In a nod to the dance of djinn through different cultures, the editors retain the creatures’ various translated names: jinn, genie, ifrit and more. The Best of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy, From an Intergalactic Love Story to New York City Under Water 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Most enjoyable is the gusto with which everything is thrown into her story, from massacres to zombies to djinns. Mysteries Unfold in a Land of Minarets and Magic Carpets 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z So by watching that episode, Americans have heard about a djinn, they learned about there are exorcisms, both Muslim exorcism and Catholic exorcism. Aasif Mandvi talks "Evil," djinns and "the appeal of Trump" despite being hated by GOP leaders 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z He conjures the evil djinn, or genie, setting in motion a night of terror. ‘The Djinn’ Review: A Boy Whose Wish Comes True 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Nahri becomes embroiled in a fierce political conflict between various djinn tribes and must rely on her wits, her growing relationships with Ali and Dara, as well as her natural abilities to survive. Best science fiction and fantasy books to read this month 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z When we chatted, Mandvi, who many know from his nine years on "The Daily Show" as the "all things Brown" correspondent, was especially excited about an episode this season that features a djinn. Aasif Mandvi talks "Evil," djinns and "the appeal of Trump" despite being hated by GOP leaders 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z This play is partly magical in its incarnation of the djinns, ancient spirits which the young girl incants. Royal Court's New Plays from India: snapshots of the subcontinent 2012-11-09T14:53:47Z Like a djinn, or a devil at the crossroads, the legendary performer tells Samir to make his material more personal, to tell stories his audience can connect to. In Jordan Peele’s “Twilight Zone” Reboot, the Plot Is Often Less Brilliant Than the Premise 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The word "genie" comes from djinn, and a djinn is a spirit. Aasif Mandvi talks "Evil," djinns and "the appeal of Trump" despite being hated by GOP leaders 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Most people have never heard of a djinn, they have no idea. Aasif Mandvi talks "Evil," djinns and "the appeal of Trump" despite being hated by GOP leaders 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Add liberal doses of djinn and divine relics, and you have yourself a stew. A Swashbuckling Pirate Pulled Into One Last Job 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Thus we tumble down a labyrinthine rabbit hole of accounts of men, women and otherworldly beings like djinns and ifrits, as they enthrall and entrap, deceive and conquer one another. Review: Reliving Those Arabian Nights in ‘Pay No Attention to the Girl’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The authors weave the magical beings into their own cultures, some taking heavy hints from “The Arabian Nights,” others using djinn as an abstract, heavy longing to belong or as a haunting presence on Mars. Best science-fiction and fantasy books to read in March 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The djinn tries to grant her three wishes, but it gets complicated. George Miller Is at the Cannes Film Festival Making ‘Furiosa’ (That’s Right) 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z This impulse is an ancient one: The idea that one might bind a djinn, create a golem or manipulate a god or fairy to do your bidding is inscribed deep in the human imagination. Seeing magic in science, we seek the prophecies of oracles in AI 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Another cautionary tale from Jewish and Muslim folklore revolves around the djinn, a nonhuman entity made of smokeless fire, that can occasionally be bound by humans and chained to their will. Can religion save us from Artificial Intelligence? 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z A yarn about a scholar and a djinn serves as a proscenium for tales from many sources, from Scheherazade to the TV news. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z What ensues is a dialogue wherein the djinn explains his various loves and captivities to Alithea, who listens enraptured with her wet hair wrapped in a towel. Review | ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’: All talk and no magic 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z While giving a talk about the continuing purpose of myth in our modern, science-based world, she is spooked by a djinn in the audience and faints. Review: In 'Three Thousand Years of Longing,' the existential questions go unanswered 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z There are still good reasons to analyze its efforts in terms of djinns, golems and the like. Seeing magic in science, we seek the prophecies of oracles in AI 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Alithea, a literary scholar on a work trip in Istanbul, is the latest fated candidate to summon the djinn — purchasing the blue and white glass bottle that contains him from a knickknack shop. ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ review: Unbalanced pacing muddles a mesmerizing cinematic experience 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Miller and co-writer Augusta Gore preserve the stories the djinn tells Alithea while more or less scrapping the rest of the text. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z It all gets very heady, with Alithea and the djinn jousting about whether science has replaced myth, whether fate exists and the nature of desire, contentment and purpose. Review | ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’: All talk and no magic 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The story inside Alithea’s belongs to the main djinn she encounters after purchasing a mysterious glass bottle in a bazaar and scrubbing it clean. Review: In 'Three Thousand Years of Longing,' the existential questions go unanswered 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z When no wish comes to her mind, he tells her 3,000 years worth of stories that hurtle the film through time and that ultimately bring Alithea and the djinn closer. George Miller, Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba talk power of story 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Yet the djinn is a slave to Swinton’s character and the whims of fate. ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ review: Unbalanced pacing muddles a mesmerizing cinematic experience 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The djinn turns back the clock 25 years. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z It’s also when the politics of the story become subtly problematic, as Alithea constantly refers to Elba as “my djinn,” as if he were the ultimate magical Negro. Review | ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’: All talk and no magic 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Mr Shah's lyrical captions are steeped in facts and read like excerpts from an exciting story - where we learn about dead emperors, malevolent djinns and of rebellions that dissolved empires - in about 300 words. The amateur historians documenting Delhi's past 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z He discovers only one unhappy person in the city, a former soldier and murderer named Bhan Gurung, who has secrets of his own that the djinn might be able to exploit, changing the city forever. 10 new science fiction and fantasy novels to check out this August 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z "Growing up, my cousin told me stories about "djinns". The stories stuck with me. Writing a story about this world felt natural." The Hollywood writer who hated her name 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Miller devotes his considerable imagination to the djinn’s tales. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z When he arrived at Sissoko's house the next time, carrying his money, a man burst out of a room saying a spirit - a djinn - had just attacked him. The 'black magic' bank heist 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Astrologers, fortunetellers and the occasional djinn also figure in the action. A fascinating ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad’ comes alive 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z She doesn’t believe that magic is real, until she accidentally summons a djinn, steps into a conflict in a fantastical world, and discovers that she is the last remaining member of a powerful family. The best science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels of 2017 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z He tells her that magic is real and powerful, and that she’s been threatened by an evil djinn. 16 science fiction and fantasy books to read this November 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The film’s title refers to the djinn’s captivity: first with the Queen of Sheba, then with a slave girl and, last, with a lady genius. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z He warned Ayoub not to anger the djinn, for fear his money would not be doubled. The 'black magic' bank heist 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z A djinn, or genie, tells Superman that he must keep the child. 'The Coming of the Supermen': Neal Adams doesn't like your current 'Man of Steel' 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Her uncle, a former soldier, said: "There's no djinn or anything, she has a man problem - hormone issues, that's what this is about." Arrested after falling for another woman - BBC News 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z A police investigation is still under way, but villagers believe the cause of the fire is supernatural, started by "djinn", mythological evil spirits. Egyptian village blaming fires on 'evil spirits' - BBC News 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z When they unite, Solomon casts the jealous djinn into the Red Sea in a flask. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z He credits the djinn with a series of wondrous occurrences, including the great luck of getting a job with the Railways in 1973 and the blessing of his retirement in 2012. A Castle Receives a Weekly Delivery of Delhi’s Secret Desires 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z The resulting complications are visible in “Genie, Genie,” one of this season’s most popular episodes, featuring a dimwitted djinn fielding poignant but comical wishes from the denizens of an apocalyptic Aleppo. A Syrian Parody Features the Civil War, and Is Stalked by It 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z News of the courthouse haunting, thus, “will bring relief to people who feared Delhi’s age-old djinns and spirits are being driven away by the process of gentrification,” the news Web site Scroll noted drolly. An Indian courthouse investigates reports of unusual suspects: Ghosts Thanks to evidence-based reason we are blessedly liberated from ancient fears of ghosts and devils, evil spirits and djinns, magic spells and witches’ curses. Who would rally against reason? 2012-03-21T16:31:42Z Back in Istanbul, the scholar buys a “nightingale’s eye” bottle at the bazaar, from which a djinn emerges in her hotel room to grant her three wishes. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Another asks the djinn to provide for the construction of a new latrine, and also to do something about her husband’s disposition. A Castle Receives a Weekly Delivery of Delhi’s Secret Desires 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z He declared that a djinn who lived there specialized in helping old scoundrels to scribble. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z "No djinn or devil go near him now." The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The djinns, on the contrary, are described as tall spiritual beings possessing great power. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Maybe he also feared that the scholar would somehow steal the djinn’s thunder, because he’s reduced her to the familiar figure of asocial intellectual. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The people who pour into Firoz Shah Kotla every Thursday hold a variety of views about the djinn, or genies, wish-fulfilling but capricious creatures described in Islamic cosmology and “The Arabian Nights.” A Castle Receives a Weekly Delivery of Delhi’s Secret Desires 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z None the less, the attic shortly became his habitat, the djinn and the hourla his familiar spirits, and the plot of "The Monster" began fermenting in his mind. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Fawad has told him all about the ship, which is the home of the water djinn. Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn.” 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z It was essential in the old Greek rites of averting the K�res or djinns, the ill regulated ghosts who return to earth and molest the living, to abstain from flesh. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" She arrives at the conference and, within minutes, the djinn appears in her room and takes over. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Take them away, O djinn that paints the clouds and brings in the night in the rumble and clatter of the train cadences out of the past ... A Pushcart at the Curb Falstaff is big with the love of life and ever giving birth to it; he is the spirit of the earth, a djinn released whom none may bottle. A Novelist on Novels He thinks about the water djinn: their teeth, their hands, what they see down there in the darkness. Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn.” 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z He looked back, and the plume of still-rising smoke from the broken thing that had been his ship was like a solid black pillar that had been hastily built by some evil djinn. A Gift For Terra After a stint bottled up in the Bosporus, the djinn lands with thwarted polymath Zefir. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The djinn had been at once a triumph and a sad mistake of nature. The Giants From Outer Space Although he hadn't expressed himself thus to his followers, his first opinion had been that the unprecedented pillars were djinn come out of the erg for no good purpose. Black Man's Burden Eaten or mangled into shreds—is that what you want?” all without shouting, without once raising her voice, and then the next day Fawad had told him about the ship and the water djinn. Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn.” 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z Something burst forth like a freed djinn—almost instantaneously lengthening, spreading—a thing with beetling brows, low, broad forehead, prognathous jaw, and a hunched, brutally muscular body, with a great club over its swollen shoulder. Political Application The djinn becomes her lover and teacher but can’t escape her frustration. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Across the light passed the giant djinn, moving to waylay them, standing mountain-steady to intercept. The Giants From Outer Space "They are as the sands of the erg, and they have the weapons of the djinn, as each man knows." Border, Breed Nor Birth At that moment, the sound grew louder, a hollow, howling sound, and Jack held the flipper in his hands and looked into the darkness for the water djinn. Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn.” 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z I am helpless, Daoud thought, and terror and rage rose up in him like two djinns released from their jars, threatening to overwhelm him. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel In the book, the djinn and the scholar attend a second conference. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Then there were djinn, a row of them standing side by side with feet firmly planted to make a barrier. The Giants From Outer Space In Cairo it was believed and printed that the spacecraft was manned by creatures of protean structure, remarkably resembling legendary djinns. Long Ago, Far Away The water djinn were carrying the Frenchman away, Jack realized. Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn.” 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z For a moment he thought it some aerial being, flitting through space, and coming, like the djinns of the East, to watch by night over the faithful believer. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 With an assist from the djinn and his knowledge of obscure folklore, the scholar speaks on wish fulfillment, aging and desire. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The djinn that Solomon ruled, conquered, and put down. The Giants From Outer Space I always said she was a djinn; and this convinces me of the fact.” The Young Rajah These djinns, with their whirling sand-robes, would swoop down and whisk the poor shelters away. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad He is the slave of the djinn whom he has called from the unclean deeps. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Modern technology convinces the djinn that humans no longer need magic. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z For bait, he must have used alcohol, too, since it was the Achilles heel of the djinn. The Giants From Outer Space Ever hear of the djinn in the bottle? The Ragged Edge Before the time of Mohammed there were no public baths in Arabia, and it was and is believed that baths are specially haunted by the djinn—the evil spirits. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man How about the djinn crying inside the sealed jar, and the fate of the credulous fisherman who obeys that voice and breaks the seal which Solomon the Wise set against him? About Ireland In a story with drowned pregnant slave girls, sumo wrestler-like courtesans and virgin djinn queens with legs covered in fur, the heroine’s experiences of her own body aren’t incidental. Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Had he nailed the entire breed of djinn in his lifetime? The Giants From Outer Space But did you ever hear of a djinn in a blue-serge coat? The Ragged Edge The orthodox monotheistic Mussulman has his afreets, and djinns; the Jew, or the Christian, has his angels, the Catholic has his saints; the Platonist has his demons; Superstition has its ghosts. Cock Lane and Common-Sense I declined upon a more rational Cairo—the Arab city where everything is as it was when Maruf the Cobbler fled from Fatima-el-Orra and met the djinn in the Adelia Musjid. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) While Miller declines the challenge of representing the story’s most meaningful aspects, his spectacular rendering of the djinn’s tales makes his film a lesser counterpart to Italian folklore collections like “Kaos” and “Tale of Tales.” Page-to-Screen: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Byatt minus the feminism (and genie sex) 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Anyway, there sure as hell weren't any djinn on Earth today. The Giants From Outer Space Three times he uttered a phrase: "A djinn in a blue-serge coat!" The Ragged Edge The parent has to play the part of Aladdin's djinn; and many a parent has sunk beneath the burden of this service. Treatise on Parents and Children "I am frightened," she said; "have I given myself to a djinn?" The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Perhaps this was partly because the impression that the djinns had sole rights here was growing stronger every moment. It Happened in Egypt Four speeding djinn abruptly barred their path, express-flying down on them. The Giants From Outer Space I did so, not knowing what djinns I should evoke; and the result was such an apology as one might make who had spent a night on the rack. Traffics and Discoveries The djinns and devils in the garden might present themselves in all their hideousness if it so pleased them but tonight she was heedless of them. The Shadow of the East Lady Hester said it was my djinn or star which got me into such favour. Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir And even the djinns could not work harm to Angels. It Happened in Egypt We felt we were the last djinn at liberty. The Giants From Outer Space "Who are you?" he said; "are you woman or djinn?" Malayan Literature It was the Garden of Enchantment, peopled with a thousand djinns and demons of Old Japan. The Shadow of the East All we knew was that the mountain had a secret, and that the man who had tried to rob us of our rights to it, was caught in the trap of the djinns. It Happened in Egypt When he had crept within the trench most lately dug, he had heard the wicked voice of the djinns raging and quarrelling together. It Happened in Egypt There were always legends of giants and ogres and djinn and demons on earth, myths that started to die out about the time this late friend of ours left the globe for good. The Giants From Outer Space He worked cautiously, even tenderly: for this queen's secret was our secret in the finding, even if the right to it was in the keeping of the djinns. It Happened in Egypt "See, all the djinns are gone, Bar-ree," she said with a little nervous laugh. The Shadow of the East When she died, by her magic arts learned from the lost Book of Thoth, she had turned all those aware of the tomb's existence, into djinns, to guard the secret dwelling of her soul. It Happened in Egypt He might be lying there dead, struck by the djinns, they said, and all those who looked upon the body would be accursed. It Happened in Egypt Even the great men of the court who by her wish hid in the mountain her body and jewels and treasure, became djinns the moment they had closed and concealed the entrance to the tomb. It Happened in Egypt "I think the djinns have got him," he answered, gravely. It Happened in Egypt Little O Hara San, firm believer in all devils, djinns and midnight workers of mischief, had grown accustomed to the eccentricities of the man who was her whole world. The Shadow of the East |
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