genie

1. N-COUNT In stories from Arabia and Persia, a genie is a spirit which appears and disappears by magic and obeys the person who controls it. (阿拉伯和波斯神話故事中的)魔仆

2. PHRASE If you say that the genie is out of the bottle or that someone has let the genie out of the bottle, you mean that something has happened which has made a great and permanent change in people's lives, especially a bad change. 魔仆出瓶(尤指產(chǎn)生不良影響的事件的發(fā)生)