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
accidental irradiation
aircrew morale
alpine goldenrods
anchor root
Apheoorthis
arc-trigonometric function
Bagnoli Irpino
blacksander
Burtscheid
call-in program
cementation index
children park
Chinese wolfberry
choupori
cocoa plum
communicate with
compliance in suspension
constabling
contrast enema
cookie jar accounting
denotates
dentofacial orthopedic
dida galgalu
dougray
dulloos
endorsee from the payee
engber
English conditions
equitable rate base
executive vice - president
facial impression
factotum
false-twist stabilized textured yarn
first ratoon
flared
floater length
fogarty
forest fire management
FPCA
gargery
go ... round
guymon
Hualpai
insurance of passenger unexpected injury
international lawyer
interobservers
inurns
investment accounts
irrigant
jizms
jobhunting
keep one's head above water
La Roca de la Sierra
ledger bait
line crossing rate
maintain system voltage
Mexborough
national minority
new chart
nonconfrontation
nonobservation
orans
paraplasia endometrialis
periungual
phosphoacceptor
physical fingers
plastic faced die
Plattensee
podophylin
Polyalthia consanguinea
portinance
prayerless
precerebellar
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R-strand
railway construction battalion
Ramenskoye
repulsion theory
RHINOPRENIDAE
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Saint-Andre
seasonal duties
self-immolates
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slab-resolving potentiometer
small biological cycle system
solar cycle
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suzerainty
synchrom esh transmission
technomanagerial
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theeward
throw sth over
tonomechanical
trailer-typed mobile laboratory vehicle
unas
voltage change
wasp-y
web footed
xyloma