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
a bad hat
abnormal milk
al-shammari
alloeorhynchus vinulus
ambystomatidaes
anglewitch
APRX
attach
B. E. A.
ba ngoi (cam ranh)
Better to wear out than rust out.
bleyke
bounce-proof contact
boys
burr oump
Byrrhidae
chigger
chittendens
chlorosomes
concordist
congenerate
contemporary culture
coordination catalyst
Corispermum lhasaense
cottons to
debt warrant bond
deschampsia cespitosa festucifolia
digital currency
diode-capacitor
distribution cable
do wrong
driving test order
drop publications
ectoblast
electrolytical series
emergency rail stored along the way
Eriocaulon sclerophyllum
exchange of stocks
fluid pressure governor
forestry act
Fort Dodge
gametogeny
genus moloches
good-liking
gravity stoner
gyroballs
hemiascomycetess
high-density tape
histiocytes
in inverse order
interval class
kelvyn
lake ontarios
laser distance meter
lateral-cut
life buoy light marker
low-temperature reusable surface insulation
malluvium otohimeae
manubriosternal synchondrosis
marine policy
mary pickfords
methylglucosamine
milmo
molded dress
mordanting bath
multi-channel photo-recorder
musculus vastus medialis
NGFI
NKDA
openheartedness
oumba
pedanticisms
physical level of programming
Pilaló
prime polar divisor
printed resistor
probable maximum seiche
Puccinia helianthi
R-fvalue
rostaporfin
scrap diamonds
self-humbling
septic condition
seromycin
sheldrun
shofars
side-ward
small down payments
softening test
sound-proof material
stress-cycle diagram
subsequently
tangoing
terrain scanning system
the treeline
time coherence
tort feasor
tropicalisation
Urantoin
weises
whyl
wind gauges