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gaslight

参见：gas light 和 gas-light

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A gaslight (noun sense 1) being lit by a lamplighter in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1953.
1953年的瑞典斯德哥尔摩，人们用点灯工具点燃一盏煤气灯（名词义项1）

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源自gas (“煤气”) +‎ light。[1]

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gaslight (可数 和 不可数，复数 gaslights) (英国，历史)

  1. 煤气灯
    近义词：(US) gas lamp
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    • 1904, Yogi Ramacharaka [pseudonym; William Walker Atkinson], “Fresh Air”, 出自 Hatha Yoga: Or The Yogi Philosophy of Physical Well-being […], Chicago, Ill.: Yogi Publication Society […], →OCLC，第 222 页:
      Open the windows once in awhile and give the air a chance to circulate in and out. In the evening, do not forget that the lamps and gaslights are using up a goodly supply of oxygen also—so freshen things up a little, once in awhile.
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  2. 煤气灯的灯光
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源自英国戏剧家和小说家Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962)所著舞台剧《煤气灯下》及其在1940年和1944年的电影改编。剧中的丈夫通过改变生活环境的一些小细节，如煤气灯的亮度，来使其妻子和其他人认为其妻子丧失了心智。[2]详见英语维基百科。

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gaslight (第三人称单数简单现在时 gaslights，现在分词 gaslighting，一般过去时及过去分词 gaslighted 或 gaslit)

  1. (多及物) 利用煤气灯效应操纵，误导；PUA
    • 1962, "The Journal Pre-Views Tonight's TV." Jersey Journal [Jersey City, NJ]. February 12, 1962: 12 col 6, describing the plot of the episode "Who Is Sylvia" of the television show Surfside 6:
      Sylvia is a beautiful woman whose business-partner husband is "gaslighting" her. (That means he's trying to drive her crazy.)
    • 1963, "TV Scout." Daily Press [Utica, NY]. November 18, 1963: 24 col 2, describing the plot of the episode "The August Teahouse of Quint McHale" of McHale's Navy:
      [The men of McHale's Navy] decide to "gaslight" the already befuddled captain, to convince him he is going insane.
    • 1964, in an argument between the characters Jenny and Charley in William Goldman's novel Boys and Girls Together, page 564:
      "You're gaslighting me, for chrissakes."
    • 1967, Stan Freberg (comedian), on his "most excruciating experience with a producer" as interviewed in Humphrey, Hal. "'Dramatic' Role Played By Freberg." The Oregonian [Portland, OR]. February 11, 1967: II 3 col 3.
      I came home before he could gaslight me like Boyer did Bergman in the movie.
    • 2016, Tate Taylor (movie director), in the commentary version of The Girl on the Train (2016 film), discussing a train scene seventy-six minutes into the movie:
      Just in the nick of time Rachel finds out the truth about her life from Martha. [...] This is how I wanted to show the gaslighting that had been going on Rachel's entire life.
    • 2021年9月28日, Alexander Brown, An Ethics of Political Communication, Routledge, →ISBN:
      In fact, political scholars have written a great deal about Trump's gaslighting of the American people on various fronts. For example, Duca (2016) describes Trump's gaslighting as only beginning when he has initially lied or misled about issues—such as falsely claiming that the United States is the highest-taxed country in the world or that crime is on the rise. As Duca puts it: 'The gaslighting part comes in when the fictions are disputed by the media and Trump doubles down on his lies before painting himself as a victim […] '
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    近义词：head-game
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  1. ↑ “gaslight, n.”，OED Online  ⁠，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Oxford University Press，March 2012年; “gaslight, n.”，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.
  2. ↑ “gaslight, v.”，OED Online  ⁠，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Oxford University Press，December 2004年; “gaslight, v.”，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.

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