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
active manager
aircraft(s)wonen
allegator
big white
bispectrum
blasted it
canalejas del arroyo
captured personnel
CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission
channel command word buffer
chemical sensation
Collision Caused by Mixed Faults
Compton radius
cyber culture
cylindrical water tank
Decaspray
diaphragm-type accelerometer
directivity pattern
disk-type marker
dramatic present
engine flat
enterprise storage
exceptioners
expense constant
fall into disfavor with
family Salpidae
fault barrier
feeling sorry
first-in, first-out
flathe
french-cut
Froehlich's dwarf
funnel erosion
fur beetle
garden webworm
globus palliduss
heddle gauge
helladosphaera cornifera
hinged pillar
Hongor
iittala
imbarked
incompetent tribunal
inherent strength
Karlo-Libknekhtovsk
Kootenay (Kootenai)R.
light piece
local environment
lunarscapes
mapwise
mask-wearing
maximum allowable working pressure
message bit
metal sheet
migrating mesenchyme
mummachogs
N-acylsphingosine
nfls
norm of technological economy
open contact leakage current
optimal personality trait
optional dive
organic semiconductor gas sensor
para.professional
past participles
peak anode current
physiocrine
pilates
plain loop
planar configuration
planting industry
portfolio of commodities
presbyope
Ptimal
public revenues
pure neon
quasi elliptic geometry
remote measurement by carrier system
renmin
second-order circuit
semibilinear form
sleeve surface milling cutter with coarse teeth
spark plug extension
straight-breeding
structural aspect ratio
subsidence velocity
supernaturalist
surface element
survey potential
tat (thematic apperception test )
tetouan (tetuan)
tinidazole
transverse electric polarization
transverse nerve of neck
trichodragmata
uncompromisingness
vaidisova
vinblastine-antineoplastic
Vochard's petroleum oven
waggly
what's
yolk ash