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。
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A. P. X.
all rubber shoes
an aeroplane shed
asymptotic elastic behavior
Bacillus smaragdinus foetidus
background value
balanced tree
battles of granicus river
be just like
bismutohauchecornite
bodilize
borages
brevirostry
bromargyrite
bulk system
Bumbuli
burglary attempt
carrier-chrominance
collector base cut off current
collimating sight
computer kit
connection in parallel
Correnti, C.
crucero
data transfer phase/circuit switched network
deep brine crystallization
depth cross-section
diode dual circuit
displayability
East Grinstead
edgeware
effective field strength
eneurosis
eutron
farrin
fight a battle against
geosophy
ghostfish
giant kangaroo
hamrin
hand lever shifter
hop-score
illiquation
inbox rot
indecent haste
jillions
journal temperature
kaisa
law lords
lead subacetate cerate
letter reference number
lightens up
limited private type
logic family
Mars Hill
match gearing
misericordious
MOL-HFV
multiplexes
notary act
nuclei originis nervi accessorii
Okola
out-fast
panel interrupt mask
phlegmasia thrombotic
phomopsis morearum
power recorder
prenylnaringenin
protruberance
purser department
quartan
receiving data
red softe
right handed twist
royal-purple
ruthenous
seal joint
Siasi I.
signal processor controller
siniscalco
Skardh
sluthhounds
sound signal appliance
sphecoid wasps
split hydraulic brake system
sub transferee
subject access
suckback
tysilio
ultramicroscopic granule
unambiguous velocity
unchamfered
underassessment
undrooping
up drive press
verbanon
viabler
Vichy waters
welded-on head
well-structure
y chromaticity diagram
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