ventriloquist: [17] A ventriloquist is etymologically a ‘stomach-speaker’. The word is an anglicization of late Latin ventriloquus, a compound formed from Latin venter ‘stomach’ (source also of English ventral [18] and ventricle [14]) and loquī ‘speak’ (source of English colloquial [18], elocution [15], eloquent [14], loquacious [17], etc).
The ultimate model for this was Greek eggastrímuthos ‘speaking in the stomach’. The term was originally a literal one; it referred to the supposed phenomenon of speaking from the stomach or abdomen, particularly as a sign of possession by an evil spirit. It was not used for the trick of throwing one’s voice until the end of the 18th century. => colloquial, elocution, eloquent, locution, loquatious, ventral, ventricle
1650s in the classical sense, from ventriloquy + -ist. In the modern sense from c. 1800. Ventriloquists in ancient Greece were Pythones, a reference to the Delphic Oracle. Another English word for them was gastromyth.
双语例句
1. He looked like a ventriloquist's dummy.
他看上去像腹语术表演者用的人偶。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Peter worked in night club as a ventriloquist.
彼得在夜总会当一名口技表演者。
来自辞典例句
3. A figure of a person or an animal manipulated a ventriloquist.
口技表演者用来处理声音的一种木制雕塑.
来自互联网
4. Every ventriloquist carries a dummy of their own.
所有的口技表演者都随身带着人偶.
来自互联网
5. One character is a ventriloquist, another a sleepwalker.
