时间:2019-02-02 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  其实,你不必担心人们叫你傲慢自大的jackanapes--如果你确实只是一个默默无闻的pipsqueak的话。Pipsqueak表示“无足轻重的小人物,无聊的人,矮小的人”。


  已故的美国天才诗人和语源学家约翰·西阿迪(John Ciardi)认为,pipsqueak本是第一次世界大战时德国用的一种高速小炮弹。据他推测,这种炮弹在破壳而出(pip)之前会制造出呼啸声(squeak),因此得名pipsqueak。


  然而,据《牛津英语词典》记载,pipsqueak最早的用法出现在1910年,当时一战尚未发生,所以上述理论很难站住脚。


  语言学家认为,pipsqueak其实和bang、whoosh一样属于拟声词(echoic),squeak本身是拟声词,表示“吱吱尖叫声”,不信你穿一双走起来吱吱响的鞋子试一试就知道了。Pip长期以来被用来表示“非常小的东西”,比如苹果种籽和扑克牌上的点数。Pip原本是peep(幼鸟的吱吱叫声)的变体。因此,pipsqueak形象地描绘了一个“小人物”在压力下发出的“吱吱尖叫声”。


 



学英语单词
3-Deoxy-manno-octulosonate-8-phosphatase
advanced cardiac life support
AEOD (analysis and evaluation of operational data)
arg-
armigers
ashlared
aviendha
bacteriophagous
be content with
bernzini
bitter peptide
booq
Bīrbīrsa
cariole
cartright
catarrhal dyspepsia
chafing block
charcoal blacks
Chooz
clausius
clear blue water
clinidaes
colourless calcium aluminate glass
common platform
consanguinous
continuous feed plating press
destandardize
dosage meter
double beating-up
double point gear
drift theory
Earthquakeproof
electroablation
eleet
ELGs
evatron
eyeletter
fenestras of the vestibule
forensic physician
furanose
ground effects
Hamburger Hallig
high-speed vibrating separator
ice blockage
infrared technology
international geographical union (igu)
it's up to you
keratinases
light breeze
live shell
Longer Catechism
M-TH
marine boundaries delimitation
mart
maximum machine voltage
mechanical ashed producer
meninx primitiva
mineral analytical chemistry
Mistassini R.
mitratapide
munrows
naibours
Nangnimho
negative substituent
Neodrenol
Network Management Station
noah websters
nymphetic
obstropalous
Osage River
pair-bondings
perforated film
performs
Pkulngri Pt.
prelacrimal
prenominate
professional journal
propazine
quenepas
revenue office
Shahbanu
shrummer
single fillet welded lap joint
soft limit
stoleru
storage file
suicide king
sulfurised
Suze-la-Rousse
swagger coat
threephase inverter
tillmans
tin plate ink
tinfoil hats
tip aileron
transpos(ition)ing(operation)
trigony
underneath
uramido
userer
Verkhodvor'ye
wahter