puppet
意味
- 操り人形
- (他人の)意のままに動く人(集団),傀儡(かいらい),手先《+of(under)+名》
例文
A puppet does not know that it is being controlled.
傀儡は操られている事を知らない。
Do you happen to think that I'm your puppet?
ひょっとして私はあなたの操り人形だと思うの?
I have lived a life of a puppet of fortune.
私は数奇な運命にもてあそばれてきた。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English popet, probably from, though attested earlier than, Middle French poupette, diminutive of poupée (cf. also Medieval Latin *pupata), ultimately derived from Latin pupa (“doll, puppet; girl”). The nominal form first appears c. 1531, and the verbal form c. 1635. See also puppy.