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
2nd engineer
address computation
Al Mish'āb
aliasing
aligning treatment
American Express Inc.
analysis of rigid frame
annihilation operator
appliance server
base lead bullion
bat five hundred
benzyl radical
biased perceptions of out-group
biensch
bring sb to his milk
brown-purplest
build-in reliability
Campodarsego
carotinoid pigmentation
carriage of contraband
Cassola
cell denaturation
clanobutine
corporate equity securities
cut sb off with a shilling
cyclic demagnetisation
doubly deterministic tabled zero-sided lindenmayer system
dreadedness
dromoscope
Débo, L.
Ech Chouech
engineering index
enthalpy transport by diffusion
ernst-mach
evolutions
exemplaric
F body
fluoroformylone
FOADed
Fossil Hd.
Franklin stoves
full duplex computers
genus Rivulus
glybuzole
Guguan
gyrus fornicatus
inculcator
intrusery
isoprenaline hydrochloride
kirve
lactational diestrus
lead fluosilicate
leak oil tank
legal construction
leisure class
low-emission
manned space flight tracking network
Michelson stellar interferometer
minor of a determinant
monthly activity file
multiring
Muscovy ducks
natural population growth
navigational satellite receivers
night combat air patrol (night cap)
non-self-propelled ship
Nyavka
Panawarfin
perdreaux
phosphorylome
plager
poopier
quantum theory of heat capacity
quote favourable terms
reactive navy blue
Reserpex
resoaks
retarding-field oscillator
retroposition of uterus
reverse proxy server
Rietvleidam
rootsiest
rubber stamps
sassoline(e)
scrol
seamen's register
semispinalis capitis
sense of current
spatial composition
starting lever reversing interlock servomotor
steam-jet air extractor
stock clearing
super seal floating shoe
teeny-tiny
television telescope
thioglycolates
tractor aircraft
trudge
typhlodromips vestificus
UHD TV
year long
yellow lady-slippers