Manchurian candidate

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person of influence, especially a politician, who is being manipulated by an enemy power to harm the interests of their own country, possibly without their own full awareness.
    — Get outta my head 'cause I don't need this! Why didn't I see this? I'm a victim Manchurian Candidate I have sinned by just Making my mind up and taking your breath away

词形变化

Manchurian candidates plural

词源

From the title of the 1959 novel or 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, in which the son of a prominent US political family is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a communist conspiracy.
Also comes from the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II.
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