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
active volcano
afterpulsing
agbetra
aglomerating
all out of love
angle of departure
architects
balanced draft furnace
beet hopper
buntals
callos-
capacity for volume production
captainship
Cenepa, R.
chancho
chenopods
chlorofluorocarbon
cilia of the posterior orbit
cracking load
cyclic ethers
dco
destructured
dihydrothiazepine
direct seal valve
distilleir's dried soluble
drill master
dynamic text display system
ESFP
freeze-thaw test
gamboas
general elections
gitology
glacial wind
greecious
handily
harborough
hearings
hemlines
hoosier states
hypochromic an(a)emia
incused
intercommunicated
kerato-iridocyclitis
kubiks
levans
ligamentum transversum sacpulae superius
luffing gear
lysase
maccallum
Master Cubes
Menaucourt
micro-macro links
midcyclic bleeding
mix communications
moonshees
Nijinsky, Waslaw/Vaslaw
nominal diameter of hydroclone
non-linear feedback control system
not less than
Oba, R.
odlyzko
ongoingness
outpoll
penal sentence
planning control
pneumatic paint brush
port-of-call
positioning metric
primary regulation
Prograt
pugnacity
puka
reappropriations
related by blood
rent party
restaurateuring
reverse-commuted
saddle-tree(linriodendron tulipifera l.)
salicin(e)
schild
sell at auction
september equinoxes
sharp zone
Smitane
spirituall
Streptomyces venezuelae
system, expert
truckstop
two-component injector element
type twister
uk spec
under feed threshing
upper air data
urquiza
Vacuum cooker
vibration elimination
viscose cellulose
viscosity energy barrier
voltage atdischarge end
weedman
weighing belt feeder
westernization movement