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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actuated error
acute bisectrix
alphabetarians
anepithymia
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Azhikal
bancorp
break request signal
buying center
calang
canzone
carbon oxysulfide
cartesian coordinates in the space
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cerophysa chujoi
cobalt pentlandite
combination oven
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dee-nettle
didymodon constrictus flexicuspis
distribution characteristics
don't do anything I wouldn't do
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family squillidaes
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field-line annihilation
flagposts
flip chip bonding
foul out
genus Ecballium
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hand-controlled target
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hydrogeological exploration
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impleaching
in a manner prescribed by law
incidental defect
indrani
invertend
kernel of equal measure
lachenal
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lateral lobe
lead container
leaves-of-absence
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lofting irons
logarithmic scale noise meter
logickers
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magnetic focusing indicator tube
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random disturbances
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rise to the bait
signal multiplier method
slight sea
splaining
spur capacitance
telebits
throw over wheel
twenty-eights
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wavelet decomposition
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