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。
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AAAM
acoustic absorption material
antenna capacitor
apex silo
atlantic missile range
autoinduction
baby fund
banton
birdlimed
burke
collective-efficacy
common sword fish
compact snow
concrete measures
crack growth theory
cyber cafes
dapples
dermographia
destination-based taxation
Dianga
door guard
dumping skill at sea
embargo on
embryolemma
end-plate potential
epituberculous infiltration
faith healings
fault block oil and gas pool
faya (largeau)
final sentence
flange stress
for a loss
front up
FYROM
gram
grammarlike
graphite amorphous
grass script
haplustolls
hectic show
Hitchcockian
hybrid correlation
hydrostatic organ
indefeasible right of use
innovation process
jellied meat
Julianstown
Koch island
LevelUp
liere
local and tandem switching capability
Machilus longifolia
macrocypris succinea
malt-floor
membrana propria ductus semicircularis
monitor program
naila
non-dimensional number
otter bridle
Petacalco, B.de
ponciness
position roll eight
prednisolone 17-valerate
progressive rise
pseudo-nitzschia pungens
quartz crystal controlled blocking oscillator
rcra
rebriefing
respiration impedance instrument
self-conjugate nuclei
self-excited circuit
shihmienense
sibyl
signature with appendix
simmental cattle
solicited message
speed-of-sound measurement
spermaceti wax
stanks
start after
stream hours
streetproofs
sulfaimidine
Sātmāla Ra.
tboracaorta
tempera grassa
the roof of the world
theodolite
thick-stemmed
tillards
totaling
truthful reporting
two-address architecture
unisofts
us under siege
VTAC
windowing system
xanthopuccine
xcvier
yaki
yeagle
yes, yes