matryoshka

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌmætɹɪˈɒʃkə/    美 /ˌmɑtɹiˈoʊʃkə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of a set of wooden Russian dolls of different sizes, designed such that each fits inside the next.
    — The past is not only a foreign country that we half knew existed; it is hiding another concealed country behind it, and behind that one, another, and another – like a set of Russian matryoshki, in which larger dolls conceal smaller.

词形变化

matryoshkas plural matryoshki plural matreshka alternative matrëshka alternative matrioshka alternative

词源

From Russian матрёшка (matrjóška), from personal name Матрёна (Matrjóna), formerly Матрона (Matrona), ultimately from Latin mātrōna (“matron”).
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