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
administratorships
admrx.
age spot
Alyxia euonymifolia
automatic dispatch system
bath effect
black leaf cotton
blowtorches
Borisoglebovka
Bressoux
bright yellow leaves
Bryce
build confidence
C3g
Carthaginian peace
Cercarien-Hullen-Reaktion
chile relleno
chlorohexidine
chondriokinesis
color magnitude diagram
complex harmonic oscillation
continent-crust type basin
counterlibration
Cuban wrapper
Customer Life Cycle
damds
democratiser
diagonal pair of legs
east turkistan islamic movements
Einstein photochemical equivalence law
engineering verification test
explication
export duties and taxes
extraction-catalytical kinetic spectrophotometry
feed creel
flameproof cable
Ganglia autonomica
gastralgia
genu-
golden crown beard
hardenability limit
hardware devices
hidden rock
Hiss'method
historiographers
hydropteridine
Iheya-jima
intensity of passenger flow
intestine camera
iodine rash
isocost curve
Jonestowners
kilovolt peak value
link access protocol
LMVD
Maurism
moryl
multifrequency transmission
multiple correlation coefficient
nightshining
nipple bent piece
no defence
nonbattle injury
on sunday morning
one-pass operation
out-sized
padding on
peniels
perforated brick
plug core pusher
pre-pro-opiomelanocortin(Pre-POMC)
print hold state
quadragenerian
Rayadrug
ready-to-eat
reist
resonance spectral line
ring of residue classes modulo an integer
ringing tone signal
Rio de la Plata Canyon
Salicain
sinistro-
slayor
soap flakes
sodium hydroxide burn
stage grinding
status asthmaticus
Stilton cheese
storage space management
survey theodolite
taken a chance
Tatsinskiy Rayon
tedder and rake
textile printing
Tiouilît Anagoum
top seller
under-admiral
unipolar sunspot
unthink
us -phone
vesiculotomy
virtual commerce