时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  如果有人叫你fuddy-duddy,你可千万别不当一回事儿,因为他不是取笑你是个“守旧的老古板”,就是嫌你吹毛求疵、过于唠叨。


  Fuddy-duddy被用来形容两种人,一种是思想过时,跟不上时代潮流的“老古董”,这种老派的人虽然可能不太合群,但如果不妨碍别人也没什么。第二种人是那些爱唠叨、喜欢吹毛求疵的人,这种人总是不顾及别人的感受,按自己的性子说个没完没了。可是,守旧的“古董级”人物大多看不惯新生事物,又做不到“躲进小楼成一统”,偏偏喜欢在一旁指手画脚大发议论,那样就成了前两种人的结合体,更加惹人讨厌了。


  Fuddy-duddy可能是美国人发明的,最早出现在大约1904年。它很可能来自fussy 1,因为fussy同样具有“操心琐事的,爱挑剔的,难取悦的”等含义。当fussy 和dud(无用的,不成功的)结合起来,就构成了fuddy-duddy这个带点搞笑和戏谑色彩的贬义词。


  这种重叠词在英语俚语里很常见,比如hanky-panky(诡计,欺骗,轻佻的性行为);okey-dokey(OK,没问题);hokey-pokey(戏法,欺骗,廉价冰淇淋)等。



adj.为琐事担忧的,过分装饰的,爱挑剔的
  • He is fussy about the way his food's cooked.他过分计较食物的烹调。
  • The little girl dislikes her fussy parents.小女孩讨厌她那过分操心的父母。
学英语单词
abietolic acid
ABM-1
admiralty division
adsorption method
Agnolite
air-feeder
allcharite (goethite)
American mint
andels
appstore
at full strain
azkaban
ball socket
barter versus
block-type boring cutter
Celaperm
Central Pacific Railroad
chain-sawed
Ciempozuelite
connected station
corticothalamocortical
culicoides (oecacta) hainanensis
cut out relay shunt coil
Cypripedium fasciculatum
D-18506
dark soil
depilatory solution
dike-warden
eccentric-looking
elastic for-effect
endotoxicities
excelsior tissue
excess-air-ratio
exconvict
family Nummulitidae
farny
federal communication act
Florida pompano
fuel processing system
gaiah
galaxy-wide
gastrohypernervia
gastrointestinal systems
government take
hensher
hillock sands
hold the clock on
hunter green
imides
immunotoxicologists
in-patients
inexactitudes
interlocutors
interview-rooms
iris out
Jōhana
k.e
katsu-toxin
ketoxal
Kitoba
lung darts
Mackenzie's points
migration theory
monododecyl phosphonic acid
Mont-St-Guibert
nondialectical
ovality
oxidants
paki
pharisaically
pinacotheks
pineta
policlinics
Pternohyla
pulse recurrence counting-type frequency meter
pure financial point of view
recharacterisations
reckonest
salt agglutination
Sauvagnon
secunda
self-trimmming tank
semi-indirect lighting
settlement gauge
site selection at planning stage
slide feed
Southern bentonite
spice ... up
stretchreflex
switch stick
synchronous spark
The American Association of Railroads
thermophagia
thin beer
total water content
trivial knot
turntable press
unrestricted variable
WenlockianSeries
williwaw, williwau
wrigleyville
year round goods