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
acardiacus amorphus
Alida
all relay interlocking
attachment plug
bi-zonal
Biechów
Bocholtz
breznican
cable-type hitch
ccsbt
closer supervision
Cobbs' disease
coefficient of horizontal subgrade reaction
conventional equipment
countersorcery
cross-grained
culture circle
dental dealer
deoiling
diazanylidene
dielectric heater
dimensional range
disadvantageth
elbow room
electromagnetic ship propulsion
faux hawks
FEF25
filter(ing) element
Gaiety girl
gas dynamic flow
geolocators
greenhouse pollutant
horizontal asymptote
horizontal compass
horizontal evaporator
hornpiping
hot-pressed brass
human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)
hydroxyl-iron
idit
Imazu
infantile dysentery
inregistering
iodquecksilber (iodquicksilver)
jawbation
Khramki
lead tetracetate
leptophonia
Lord Chancellor's Office
mercury formamidate
method of symmetrical coordinates
minimum signal recognition time
mixed skin
moving iron type ammeter
muscardins
non-alphabetical
north land (severnaya zemlya)
O. C. C.
Ochsen
on a scale
on the record
palp(us)
parachomata
parisant
pejorations
Peptostreptococcus
plow draft
POR-8
pre funded
predigestion of data
proteroglyphous
put the fear of God into sb
Quemada, Pta.
quota tax
resection station
resistance to swelling
RTA (reliability test assembly)
scarlet fever vaccine
Scarlets Mill
self-congratulations
sick-out
sightability
sitterly
smokepot
specialite
Srnetica
sscis
streety
subtranient reactance
tallinns
Teano Ra.
Thladiantha dentata
Ti-n-Azabo
Tompkins, Daniel D.
topo-edaphic climax
transfrontal
vegetable matters
what's the problem
work someone up
wrongly
wye fitting
x-cut crystal