In some stories, genies are always found inside a lamp or bottle.
在一些故事里, 灯里或瓶子中总是装有妖怪。
2.(形容将对人们的生活造成永久性的、尤指负面影响的事件已经发生)妖怪已经放出魔瓶了
Now that genetically modified foods are on our supermarket shelves, the genie is out of the bottle and cannot be put back in.
转基因食品已经摆在了超市的货架上，放出魔瓶的妖怪再也无法收回。
展开词典例句
计算机
1. = GENeral Information Extractor,通用信息析取器[分离符]
2. 美国在线服务商
语源
mid 17th cent. (denoting a guardian or protective spirit): from French génie, from Latin genius (see genius). Génie was adopted in the current sense by the 18th-cent. French translators of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, because of its resemblance in form and sense to Arabic jinnī 'jinnee'
