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
actual limit
aphesperian
approval budget
articular tubercle
assr.
BACIE
barakaldo (baracaldo)
bary
bawdiness
biliary regurgitation
biofertilization
bureacracy
Callicarpa macrophylla
carbamide lamp
Carl
cesium arc lamp
clominorex
community periodicity
cotensor
cup-type currentmeter
Cyclamen europaeum
depraved-heart murder
doghouse enclosure
down draught
dromograph
electrolytic current
enneapterygius philippinus
erstwhile
ethanol(EtOH)
evening primrose oil
explicit type association
fackelmann
finger bar cutter
flagellomania
Flatiron Building
followe
food price index
forward error analysis
frosted rustic work
gauging line
grit washer
half countersunk rivet head
hexacanth
ickxes
inbow
infinite amount of vaporization
inner orientation
investment returns
jet stream ridge
job sequencing system
Kochia sieversiana C.A.Mey
lenticular structure
magnetic dril gauge holder
mental disturbances
misser
Modjeska, Helena
multivariate spline
n-butyl n-butyrate
Nabumeton
navigation lane
nonabsorbent material
nonmodem
normohydrated
nose keyway
octadecyne
one - way anova
oolitic formation
outside vapor deposition process deposition rate
parasitic oscillation
pastises
post-cold war
proprietary funds
pyrography
ramus orbitofrontalis medialis
read sector
Richmal
screen of sidelight
sheebas
shipping date
silazanecarboxylic esters
single observatlon plot
single-screw vessel
slitting shear
spar-deck vessel
sul g
symphalangus siamangs
Syzygium cumini
temporary extra man advantage
thermal neutron leakage factor
thread take-up
time-digital converter
tipped-up
tippling-house
trombone cooler
tunicae glabra
twofers
Verkhniy Torey
Vine Hill
Warkworth
William Carlos Williams
Yingtangian Stage
zero-profit postulate