Pronounced with excessive exaggeration of the second "a", as in example 1. Shaddap is used to tell somebody to [shut up] without sounding overly serious. It can also be used pre-emptively, as in example 2. The crowning usage of shaddap however is as an unexpected end to a phrase, particularly when used to imply that somebody had said something extremely stupid.
> 1. "Shaddaaaaaaaaaaaap."
> 2. "I know what you're going to say, and I'm telling you, shaddap."
> 3. "How much more does a hard drive weigh when full?"
> "Oh it weighs about shaddaaaap."

I saw Magic, Benny declared the next morning. The other children stopped fixing breakfast and stared at him. Grandfather had left for an early-morning exercise class at the Seagull Resort. You saw what? asked Henry. Magic, the ghost horse. He was on

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 77 The Mystery of the Wild Pon

Lets have our lunch on the deck, Jessie suggested. Good idea. Henry loaded a tray with egg-salad sandwiches and a plate of carrot and celery sticks. Violet followed him out the sliding glass doors with a pitcher of limeade. The children sat down on t

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 77 The Mystery of the Wild Pon

What are you talking about? Jessie asked. Winifred glared at them. I left a bowl of apples here yesterday. Id just bought them so I could paint a still life today. Now theyre gone! You think we took your apples? said Henry. Why would we do that? I do

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 77 The Mystery of the Wild Pon

Benny recognized the figure instantly. Officer Hyde! he exclaimed, running to meet him. Midnight is in trouble! Thomas Hyde looked sternly at everyone. Whats going on? Where is Midnight? On the other side of the ravine, said Jessie. Its filled with w

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 77 The Mystery of the Wild Pon

Shad walked the Aldens to his place. It seemed to take a long time and the sky grew darker all the while. He lived in an old house with several outbuildings near the shore. Come see this first, said Shad, leading them to a shack half buried in a thic

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 77 The Mystery of the Wild Pon

Were going someplace special for dinner, Grandfather announced. Eagerly the children climbed into the car. The long trip and the salty air had made them all hungry. As Grandfather swung the station wagon onto the road, Jessie noticed a sign she hadnt

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 77 The Mystery of the Wild Pon

[00:10.95]Dark on the hill, [00:13.30]Pur-ple shad-ows gath-er slow-ly, [00:17.32]winds are still.All the win-ter boughts are bare, [00:29.07]Lone-ly and far,Down a-cross the fold-ing twi-light Shines a star [00:38.50]Day is al-most o-ver now,Dark on

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(281) / 评论(0) 分类 小学英语北京版

By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 08 December 2006 watch Human Rights Day In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since that day, December 10 has marked World Human Rights Day. This year, the Unite

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(205) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)

Refugees Improve English Skills While Waiting for Resettlement 难民等待安置的同时提高英语能力 For many refugees around the world, boredom is a fact of life. While the United Nations High Commission on Refugees or UNHCR works on resettl

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 27 March 2007 Beverly Hills, the upscale California community many movie stars once called their home, is getting a new mayor - an immigrant from Iran named Jimmy Jamshid Delshad. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports, the mayo

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(200) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(三月)

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Here's a very different story about fashion, although it has to be said for many people a wedding dress is much more than a piece of clothing. It's a powerful symbol of culture, of family, new beginnings. And for one Syrian refug

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 11 When I was a kid, one time I had an old-maid teacher that used to tell me, Buzz, you're the thickest-headed dunce in school. But I noticed that she told me this a whole lot oftener than she used to te

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 22 December tenth was the birthday of Berzelius Windrip, though in his earlier days as a politician, before he fruitfully realized that lies sometimes get printed and unjustly remembered against you, he

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 19 An honest propagandist for any Cause, that is, one who honestly studies and figures out the most effective way of putting over his Message, will learn fairly early that it is not fair to ordinary folk

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 34 Speaking of Julian before he was arrested, probably the New Underground headquarters in Montreal found no unusual value in his reports on M.M. grafting and cruelty and plans for apprehending N.U. agit

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 32 Dr. Lionel Adams, B.A. of Yale, Ph.D. of Chicago, Negro, had been a journalist, American consul in Africa and, at the time of Berzelius Windrip's election, professor of anthropology in Howard Universi

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 28 As usually happens in secret service, no one detail that Sissy ferreted out of Shad Ledue was drastically important to the N.U., but, like necessary bits of a picture puzzle, when added to other detai

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

By Kurt Achin Kyoto 07 May 2007 ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda answers to questions during a press conference, at Kyoto International Conference Center, 07 May 2007 The chief of the Asian Development Bank says the organization will not sacrifice its e

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(187) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(五月)

Diplomatic efforts are continuing in an effort to secure a cease-fire in Georgia and the withdrawal of Russian troops from the former Soviet Republic. In this report from Washington, VOA Senior Correspondent Andr de Nesnera looks at what the current

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)
学英语单词
acidolysis
acoustical signal
activation adsorption
advisory route (adr)
almost equivariance
anal agenesis
analog image processing
Anshur
arithmetic pipeline
atom-meter
bergstein
bheer
Brandt, Mount
bundle loosed
cardiac second output
chain under cutting machine
cholesterolerectics
cloth lined paper
cloth wearing tester
Columbia City
Cozumel
cri
Cystocaulus
Damous
Derenburg
desipiate
double deoxidizer
drag slide current collector
dual of sheaf
ecomomic planning council
endoperitrophic
exterior trim paint
fallu
family betulaceaes
firm-level
G.M.S.
galvanic vertigo
genus Tanacetum
gombroon
high noon
hold sb. in esteem
idle money capital
inclination error
intrafusal fibers
intropins
jacking control stress
james monroes
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
laboratory data book
large-aperture seismic array
Leptopus pachyphyllus
line of shadow
little does someone know
loooved
management engineering
moisture - laden air
motherer
multiple digit adder
multiverses
neptunium tetrachloride
nervi splanchnici pelvici
occipita
optical pickup
oropera
pagoda sleeve
palaeozygopleurids
paperwork management
pidonia atripennis
Pirituba
portable telescopic crane
Queudes
repeat sign
sarcophaga krameri
scale of hardness of woodcharcoal
shelf-stacker
shock layer
Silaw Aihagam, Gunung
smooth pipe
spirolobus
standard disk plough
stasidynic
stave churches
strongylodons
system of prize
system programming application
Terek-Say
termination power
theater directory service
trade wind cumulus
tranporting cableway
ultra-low-dose
unconsolidated-undrained triaxial test
underwater viscosity
vides
virtual data connection
volume dilational vibration
voronezh r.
web crystal
well-couched
write off method
wybutin
xanthagenate