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
a bird of peace
acid phosphatic manures
acid yellow D
afognak i.
Al Khalf
alexeyev
amount of light
amphitrite lobocephala
anteriomedially
Arahat
Arctocephalus philippi
Asind
asparagus officinalis
base flashing
basilar sulcus
beyl
birefringence chart
blood-pressure sensor
Blundell
boguing
Brainia
celiocyesis
centrifiner
confirm in
data not available
decoupling attenuator
document protocol
doffer disk
electric signal transmission
Fagerlindia depauperata
fancy fresh fruits
favo(u)r
flat-staggered amplifier wide-band amplifier
fuzzy simple disjunctive decomposition
galle
gelasma
genus Parascalops
globulism
grasscourt
Grecaster
grey flounder
hats off to
hural
ill advised
index series of group
ke
lavafalls
lead hydroxynitrate
linear-response
lipothymic
Lloyd, Selwyn
low-riding
low-voltage bus-bar
memorial stone
moddon
modern liquid chromatography
naturing
new plant variety
newline
Obermuller's tests
overfyll
ozonides
palletized storage
post-dam
private(patient)
pseudohyperphoria
pulmonary congenital disease
pure colour
pyroclastic flow
re-boil
red jujube
refining of lubricating oils
response functional
river course straightening
Rutherford's theory
Scutellaria nigrocardia
self-educations
seronegativities
smuin
snake without tunnel
source package
sparrow eye
start characteristic curve
statement of absorption of deficit
steel-backed bearing
subquadriceps hematoma
superimposed river(superposed river)
synchronizing signal compression
temperate deciduous forest
third-octave filter set
timber-grillage
time detector
transfer line
trigonidium cicindeloides
tuner drum
ukeles
uranium monophosphide
vapour capacity
writing ink
Xolos
yye
Zestap'oni