ego

来自拉丁文，英语I的原型。

ego

ego: [19] Ego is Latin for ‘I’ (and comes in fact from the same Indo-European base as produced English I). English originally acquired it in the early 19th century as a philosophical term for the ‘conscious self’, and the more familiar modern uses – ‘self-esteem’, or more derogatorily ‘selfimportance’, and the psychologist’s term (taken up by Freud) for the ‘conscious self’ – date from the end of the century.

Derivatives include egoism [18], borrowed from French égoïsme, and egotism [18], perhaps deliberately coined with the t to distinguish it from egoism. And the acquisitions do not end there: alter ego, literally ‘other I, second self’, was borrowed in the 16th century, and the Freudian term superego, ‘beyond I’, entered the language in the 1920s.
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ego (n.)

1714, as a term in metaphysics, "the self; that which feels, acts, or thinks," from Latin ego "I" (cognate with Old English ic; see I). Psychoanalytic (Freudian) sense is from 1894; sense of "conceit" is 1891. Ego-trip first recorded 1969, from trip (n.). Related: egoical; egoity.

In the book of Egoism it is written, Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. [George Meredith, "The Egoist," 1879]

1. She is, first and foremost, her husband's alter ego.

她首先是丈夫的知己。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Barry Humphries's alter ego Dame Edna has taken the US by storm.

巴里·汉弗莱斯凭借埃德娜夫人一角轰动全美。

来自柯林斯例句

3. She was a prisoner of her own ego.

她为自己的自尊心所困。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Superman's alter ego was Clark Kent.

超人的第二自我是克拉克∙肯特。

来自《权威词典》

5. He has the biggest ego of anyone I've ever met.

他是我所见的最自负的人。

来自《权威词典》