时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  shoddy的意思是“劣质的、劣等的”。它是怎么来的呢?这还得从美国内战说起。


  最初,shoddy并没有“劣质的”这一含义,而是指“用加工高级毛织品时剩下的废料织成的布”。在美国内战期间,制造商们意识到为士兵生产军服会赚很多钱。其中有一些无道德的奸商发现如果用价格便宜的shoddy来做军服,利润更是“大大的有”。因为这种布料质地较差,用其制成的军服很快就会被穿破。因此,shoddy就逐渐演变成一个形容词,意思是“劣质的、劣等的”,用来形容那种看起来蛮不错,但买回家一周之后就不想再要的商品了。


  来看几个例子:


  shoddy goods, clothes: 劣质的货物、服装


  It is up to the teacher not to accept shoddy work.
  教师不应接受敷衍潦草的作业。









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2-bromotoluene
acep/j rabbit
ada implementation
affesed
all talk and no cider
allowance for uncollectible accounts receivable
altitude chart
aminoglycoside
appetitive flight
argument list
bathysphyraenops simplex
bermuda plans
bird's-foots
bismuths
blue chambers
borapetensis
cabrita
carsatrin
cluster rocket
coal field prediction
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Cologne
command factor
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contractbonds
corrupted file
crassula perforata thunb
cross-feed
cushier
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dpdt switch
dried-air drier
eine
extra sensory perception
f.r
Fimbristylis eragrostis
fixed-point implementation
flagelliflory
forced oscillation technique
gender-biaseds
half-live
hollow crank pin
industrial training centre
iwo jimas
kernel of a linear transformation
kiews
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legal fiction
limit of the atmosphere
lobsterman
macroscopic property
magnetic screen
medicinal perfume
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Muntingia calabura
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qualitative theory
reminiscing
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roole
scherer
schirmerite
segmental polypoid
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semi-reflexive
shitmobile
singleparticle
sinusoidal impulse
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splanchnic sensory component
splitting action
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switched bit allocation
synoecy(correns 1928)
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tight whites
timotei
traffic duty
tumbers
u.s. copyright office
uncompactified
unscratched
VD3
whiteleather
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