droid
/drɔɪ̯d/
- n.
- 机器人
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源说明
Clipping of android (“robot designed to look and act like a human being”). Coined by the American science fiction author Mari Wolf (born 1926) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977): see the quotations.
释义
名词noun
- 1(originally and chiefly science fiction) A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
- 2(chiefly US, derogatory) A person having the qualities of an android; one with few or no emotions or little personality