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
-agogue
acquaintable
aegypiuss
Anson unit
at other times
atomic spin
bilirachia
binding clip
boron-loaded scintilation counter
bouquet of arrangement
bronchoadenitis
cache cluster size
centerground
character-box reference edge
cisvestism
claibornes
close-fitting
deeded
Diceros simus
differential hardening
diseasemodifying
domain-independent problem solver
duck in
e-border
easing of credit
enantiopathic
endophorias
enneapterygius nigricauda
fast addressing of virtual storage
Fillering
find favor with
gagik
gaiterlike
gangbar
genuinenesses
Glochidion triandrum
golden brown
grain fanning-sorting machine
gunboats
inverse Zeeman effect
ironable
isovalent
JAX-RPC
jdz
jet nit point
kendra
knotty pines
labour parties
lard refiner
leccinum insigne
lesbianisms
local distributed data interface
low rank coal
m. corrugator glabell?
macrocyclic compound
Mannolipid
marquez
massasauga
meroblastic ovum
metal mother
microprogram
Mutt-and-Jeff
opening diameter of rotary
operational controls
opisthographs
oto-camera
overdepreciation
ozone deficiency
package delay
pallet conveyor
Pan-Americanism
paramagnetic element
pericoronitis
polar fleece
port-o-john
primary gas
Processus retroarticularis
program error
prohypertrophic
psoriasis difflusa
radiotelephonic
rash
remuneration for personal services
respublica
revolant
schistosomula
scissorings
serial memorization
side job
sliding tappet
slingshots
st. arnaud
star-bright
strain crack
sullcoating
talabecland
tapered bore of inner ring
teeming line
the gate
tuned-amplifier
under the reign of
vollards