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
Active tab
ailuruss
airshafts
annelid worms
atelocheiria
athlete's girdle
auditory tube (or eustachian tube)
bandpass noise
biotinylate
bit-time
canonical realization
carpaine
Castalis
charlotte town (gouyave)
cheviot-finish
chocs
chondroporosis
consistent matrix norm
constant velocity recording
cost summarizing record
crossfiring
cucujoids
deflagration wave
Deutzia glauca
district system
double-jointeds
electric gas heater
eucalyptoid
Eudermol
feudal mode of production
fien-dishly
free storage algorithm
gallery apartment house
GGBP
Glaswegians
goldschmidt radius
grotesqueness
Guerinite
hyakutake
instantaneous specific heat
interacting protein
joint degree
jrh
jumped out at
Kosovo
l'estrange
lifebuoy selfactivating smoke signal
lock of metal for bag
louver shutter
Lyssacinosa
macrocyclic alkaloid
makes account of
mankowitz
material handling system (mhs)
maximalities
microcline perthite
mid-side
month of the phases
mosquitofish
neptunium fluoride
non-integrable component
orquesta
outboard propulsion with inboard engine
P-channel MOS
palaeoneurological
Perdices, Sa.de
pocket magnetometer
postpractice
priorissas
professionalises
puccinia pruni-spinosae
puddingwife
Pula, C.di
pulse-drop-off time
random number table
reaches out to
reembarked
rock bit
Sapium P. Br.
scacchic
scanned laser
screw-pitch deviation
Scrofella
slicky
soapberry family
soggies
sporting-goods
Tanakae
Tetramitaceae
thallous dichromate
Tredozio
tuberosus
tubine dc oil pump
upper classes
us rite
Water-lelvel
william howard tafts
winter moderate climate
wore me out
WSBL
yin deficiency of lung and kidney