Zelig-like
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Having an extremely flexible, inconsistent or polymorphic character.
— Allen's one-liner reveals that he thinks there is something Zelig-like in himself, increasing the intrigue that this human chameleon offers.
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Synonym of Zeligesque.
— My grandfather turns up, Zelig-like, somewhere in the background of so many historic photographs and documentary film clips that sometimes I would ask myself whether the obscure but unavoidable ubiquity of his curriculum vitae in the history of the last century did not suggest a notewothy, albeit questionable, capacity to empathize and adapt—a pathological malleability.
词源
From Zelig + -like, after the character Leonard Zelig from the film Zelig (1983).
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