Cheshire cat

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˌtʃɛʃə ˈkat/    美 /ˌtʃɛʃɚ ˈkæt/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A fictional cat with a broad fixed grin, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
    — CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.
  2. A technique that involves hiding a class's data behind a pointer, so that the code remains binary-compatible even after future changes to members and functionality. attributive
    — the Cheshire cat idiom

词形变化

the Cheshire cat canonical Cheshire cats plural

词源

Term attested since at least the 1780s in the expression grin like a Cheshire cat. The reason why Cheshire was combined with cat is disputed: see here for more information.
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