bonus genius

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small wooden doll that is covered with a cape and made to vanish as part of a magic trick.
    — I'd pull out my cards and card-boxes, and the bonus genius or the wooden doll, and then I'd spread a nice clean cloth (which I always carried with me) on the table, and then I'd go to work.
  2. A benevolent spirit or angel, seen as influencing a person's decisions in a beneficial way. obsolete
    — I dailie and hourelie offend in thought, word, and deed, in a relapſe by mine owne weakneſſe and wilfulneſſe, my bonus Genius, my good protecting angel is gone, I am falne from that I was, or would bee, worſe and worſe, […]

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin bonus genius (literally “good spirit”).
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