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
abrupted
accredition
aestheticisation
aintcha
aloegoe
amperometric titrometer
anglewitches
Bahama Islands
be socked in
bitstream requirements
capacity per unit width of screening
cascade sort
classification act
Coiba, I.de
collagen fibers shrinking
complex oxides
composition bronze
curl yarn
decrane
deformed bar
directory tape processor
dismissible
double tax agreement
dowel bush
e-nf
eik
enterauxe
explosive rivet
external and internal angular processes
fair chart
flashpot
flutter coil
fraternals
fusarenone
generalized prior distribution
go campaigning
go contrary to sb's interests
go-to-hell hat
going all the way
guck
hatchway
have your nose in a book
hedonism
hot-filament ionization gage
hypergia
Ignac
immiscible butane
implicit address instruction
inductive-output tube
international practical Celsius temperature
intrinsic nature of goods
invited lecture
isomoodic
iucns
Kovačica
le shuttle,leshuttle
linac adjustment
lioconcha lorenziana
loop-couple-mode attenuator
lw (long wave)
make one's one's apologies
Mashuru
merry company
michil
Mimulicalyx paludigenus
mismatching
moonlight flit
nematic state
netherworlds
Niobotapiolite
nomocanon
nonacosanoic
NOVASURE
observation satellite
PBGV
poesch
polarchy
polygonally
product involvement
reagent chemicals
reasures
rich hand-picked ore
roussette
run amok
self cleaning grizzly
some like it hot
speciesists
Squeeze the Lemon
su.
sublimise
subsidiary attribute
Symploca
term deposits
Testrex
tetanal
throw oneself to
titheads
to collect
to steer
traditional agriculture
u.s.c
vandamm