时间:2019-02-12 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 俚语: 小傻瓜,小笨蛋


英语中有关“傻瓜”的表达大有泛滥之嫌,不过用时可要小心,弄不好有时会得罪人的!比如,之前我们讲过的dumbbell和chowderhead,其侮辱意味较浓,因此不能随便用在朋友身上。今天谈的twerp(小傻瓜),单听发音就像儿童用语,那么它能否作为一种昵称呢? 先来假设一种情况,比如,您的女朋友方向感特差,在某个夜晚,她会来个电话说又回不了家了而且身上的钱不够打的,这时十有八九您会扔出一句“You silly twerp!”(你这个小笨蛋!)不用再解释,twerp在这里几乎是一种昵称。 当然,除调侃的“昵称”外,twerp还有多种含意,它可以实指an irritating person(讨厌鬼)、an insignificant 1 person(小人物)、an idiot(傻瓜)。举个例子:What a twerp he is !(他这个人真讨厌!)实质上,任何一个词都是如此,它的确切含义得依据上下文的语境来判断。 关于twerp的渊源,说法不一,《指环王》的作者Tolkien(J·R·R 托尔金),曾在1944年写给儿子的信中提到:“twerp源于1911左右牛津大学一个名叫T.W. Earp的学生,他曾任当时学校橄榄球队的队长”。另一种说法认为,twerp最早是1925年左右传播于军队里的俚语,指“讨厌鬼”。还有一种观点说,twerp是twit(傻得令人恼怒的人)的变体。

adj.无关紧要的,可忽略的,无意义的
  • In winter the effect was found to be insignificant.在冬季,这种作用是不明显的。
  • This problem was insignificant compared to others she faced.这一问题与她面临的其他问题比较起来算不得什么。
标签: 俚语
学英语单词
93
accessory cambium
activisation
actual flow velocity
adenomatous goiter
agnellis
air shaker
appendments
archetypal image
astilbe chinensis franch.et.sav.
azimuth blanking tube
bazoom
be soaked to the skin
biased deviation
biegel
blacksmithies
Brain-sur-Allonnes
centricities
Chom Bung
chuckin'
circle l
class angiospermaes
Combretum yuankiangense
conditional-cash-transfer
contraflow condenser
coraminum
cosputtering
creep damage factor
cushioning efficiency
daily efficiency
decoctum aloes compositum
departed from
dimensionalized
distributed network supervisor
El Rancho
Epidermoptes
estoria
exmatriculated
Exogonium jalapa
flocculation of colloids
garbagepersons
genus trinectess
glynwed
gyrostabilizer
hcl
heavy duty cutaway disc harrow
HIVD
horizontally-structured
hot-wire detector
impurity distribution effect
in coordination
initial turbulence
inkeles
kinked face
labial papilia
Lemoncove
lengthy shut down period
makhno
master bistable
metroethnicities
military ceremony
monkeybone
monosymmetric ischiopagus
multi-objective nonlinear programming
newton laws
nitrosomyoglobin
nonlinear mode coupling
nude runs
Obernhain
partial reflux
Perperine
plain arch
port trust
potassium iodohydrargyrate
powdering agent
previousness
Priston
public facilities
reaffiliated
reentry capability
rounded out
Siberian pest
slip her calf
soapie
sonar plot
stenhomalus fenestratus
subscript bound
sulfacarboxychrysoidine
sulfanilylseneciamide
syntropic
tallish
tasocitinib
Tell me another!
the Truth in Lending Act
theory of eisler (or eisler theory)
twistor
ultraviolet microspectroscopy
undistilled
VITC
way-off
ye
ytterbiums