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
4-h slogan
all of a twitter
alternate angle
Amadena
antihyperalgesia
Baker R.
Banyak Islands
battered-women
be in the family way
blue chalcocite(digenite)
box-cutter
brush carrier
candyweed
Chinese Coal Classification
clamping lugs
clocked violation LO
clostridium oedemctiens
coach-whip
come into operation
confessor
convective velocity
convexes
correctness of measurement
cross application support system
cstk
Cypriotness
defe
depthx
electric resistance wire
EMT-B
floating-point tape package
folinic acid
fret out
friction powder
going to pot
grass-pea
hastrup
have a blow
hidable
hirundo rustica saturata
historical viewpoint
hyperiodemia
hypostatic gene
i-hudeket
inertial mode
infant deaths
Jagüey Chico
knib
left lumbar lymph nodes
locating shaft
magnet program
make sure
malleable shot
Markov autoregressive scheme
marmoreous
money in bank
Motoori Norinaga
N-methylacetamide
Niegosławice
nonmicrobiologic
number of lockages
Oken's bodies
Ovcon-35
overload safeguard
oyster-green
pallet jewel
Parasenecio ianthophyllus
parent resource
photoelastic effect
pick-up compliance
piracha
pocketbike
potassium cobalt nitrite
Quipar, R.
raglet
rationale
reduce sth to sth
round - trip time
sarcoma of epididymis
schnozzs
scissors hold
Scutellaria tuberifera
secondary processes
silicon controlled multi-purpose machine tool
sons harmoniques
sporadically
sq.km.
streptomicrodactyly
Styrax japonica Sieb. et Zucc.
superficial retinal hemorrhage
taactus pontocerebellares
table of logarithm
tensor muscle of tympanum
thermoelectric refrigerating unit
totem-animals
trinitrocresol
tubal adenomyosis
vesicular eruption
video band
well drilling rig
wire mesh column
yelmed