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每日單詞courtesy

生活 更新时间:2025-01-10 12:06:12

每日單詞courtesy(每日單詞quack)1

quack /kwæk/

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外刊例句

Polygraph tests are popular with credulous hacks and cranky quacks. In the 1940s, reports claimed a “lie-detector” test proved 43% of a sample of shop assistants had stolen stock or helped themselves from the till.

在那些容易上當受騙的雇員、古怪的江湖騙子中間,測謊儀很流行。在20世紀40年代,有報道稱一項“測謊儀”測試證明,43%的店員曾偷過商品或從錢櫃裡偷過東西。

——《經濟學人》

基本釋義

If you call someone a quack or a quack doctor, you mean that they claim to be skilled in medicine but are not.

n. 庸醫;江湖騙子

追根溯源

單詞quack有兩個常見意思,一指“嘎嘎”(鴨叫聲),是個拟聲詞,模仿鴨子的叫聲;另一個指“庸醫、江湖騙子”,是個縮略詞,在16世紀時寫作quacksalver,借自早期荷蘭語。

quacksalver意思是“庸醫”或“江湖醫生”,這些江湖郎中在沿街叫賣藥膏(salve)及“萬應藥”等假藥時,大吹大擂的樣子很像鴨子在嘎嘎叫(quack),所以被形象地稱為quacksalver。後來quacksalver被縮略為quack。

影視例句

在美劇《馬男波傑克》中,Bojack說到自己的需求時就用到這個單詞:

Diane: You need her more than I do. And I think she can really help you.

Bojack: Help with what? I was looking for someone to hang out with during my lunch. I didn't want some psycho-babbling quack job telling me to get in touch withmy feelings.

-你比我更需要她,我認為她真的能幫到你。

-幫什麼,我隻是需要一個午休時間陪我的人,我才不需要什麼滿嘴術語的庸醫教我怎麼理清自己的感受。

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