hick
英 [h?k]
美[h?k]
- n. 鄉下人；反應遲鈍的人；土頭土腦的人
- adj. 鄉下的；鄉巴佬的；愚蠢的
- n. (Hick)人名；(東南亞國家華語)錫；(英)?？?男子教名 Richard 的昵稱)
擴展詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?hicks;
中文詞源
hick 鄉巴佬
來自人名Richard昵稱，詞義貶義化或被惡搞。比較dick,doll,wally,willy.
英文詞源
- hick (n.)
- late 14c. as a pet form of masc. proper name Richard. Meaning "awkward provincial person" was established by 1700 (see rube); earlier it was the characteristic name of a hosteler, hackneyman, etc. (late 14c.), perhaps via alliteration. The adjective is recorded by 1914.
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't be. [attributed to U.S. humorist Robert Quillen (1887-1948)]
雙語例句
- 1. He is an obnoxious hick.
- 他是個討厭的鄉巴佬。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I was just a hick from Texas then.
- 那時我不過是從得克薩斯來的土包子。
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. Graeme Hick scored an unbeaten 58 as Worcestershire replied to Middlesex's 202 with 132-3.
- 格雷姆·?？宋闯鼍帜玫?8分，從而使伍斯特郡隊以132分3人出局的成績回敬了米德爾塞克斯隊的202分。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. " Listen, kid, I was worried when I couldn't get ahold of you in that hick town.
- “ 你聽著, 小鬼,當我派的人到你那個鄉下小鎮去找不到你的時候, 我還很擔心哪.
來自教父部分
- 5. Once the hero of Jefferson , the virtuous husbandman, he was the rube, the hick, the hayseed.
- 一度被杰斐遜奉為英雄的農民, 昔日儼然是男子漢大丈夫,而今卻一落千丈,成了鄉下人 、 莊稼漢 、 鄉巴佬.
來自辭典例句