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
anier
auxiliary steam source
Bachiniva
bethroth
Business Buzzed
cervical tenaculum
chaytor
Chinosulfan
comprehensive school
contract stipulated price
control-driven
Curcuma wenyujin
current-controlled oscillator(cco)
disobey police instructions
do your utmost
El Sobrante
enteroprocta
explosive device
face centred crystal
fat farms
field-frequency lock
fixed roof type electric arc furnace
Flores Basin
fourth
gaseous state
GJT
gossets
gotta-have-it
gridiron structure
harss
heriseptum cerebri
herringbone planking
in-law suites
inphase operation
Kópanes
lacrimal reflex
landwind
leave sb. cool
Litchfield Park
lithium citrate
load-extension curve
loop gain matrix
luminophores
main shield
maintain market
matrix steel
Mazra'a
mid rudder
modal number
multiple-electrode spot welding
muratore
myotropic activity
needle body
neuroblast
neuromodulator
nontitle
noonchi
organic finish
outvotes
Parian Chronicle
peepa
photo-optical recorder tracker
policias
poo-chi
proprietary inculant
proton-recoil ionization chamber
Protoopalina
proximal interphalangeal articulation
pyrocarbon deposition on guide tuber
quite good
refraction anisotropy
repeller oscillation mode
residential
riboregulatory
ripen fruit
rivinius
Roga index
runabout
rupture of supraspinatus tendon
satin finishing
Schisandra neglecta
separatenesses
short caseist
signature authority
Simon-Kucher
sphygmic interval
splashdown
Spruance
Syrtis Major
take over someone's duty
tangence
tenacity of theories
Tsama
Tupistra urotepala
two-position discontinuous temperature control
Type A HDMI
uncinula salmoni sydow
universal camera control system
video transponder
waste-gas burner
winding structure
Zaghouan