poppycock
英 ['p?p?k?k]
美
- n. 廢話；胡說(shuō)
中文詞源
poppycock 胡說(shuō)
美式英語(yǔ)，可能來(lái)自荷蘭語(yǔ)pappe,流食，軟食，詞源同pap,kak,糞便，來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)cacare,排便，詞源同cacophony.比喻用法。
英文詞源
- poppycock (n.)
- 1865, American English, probably from Dutch dialect pappekak, from Middle Dutch pappe "soft food" (see pap) + kak "dung," from Latin cacare "to excrete" (see caca).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Those five judges up there are not going to sustain any such poppycock idea as this.
- 那里的五位推事,是不會(huì)支持象這樣胡說(shuō)八道的主意的.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 2. Politically maybe the idea seems good, but militarily it's poppycock.
- 這種想法在政治上可能看來(lái)可取, 但在軍事上那是廢話一堆.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 3. He dismissed the official explanationas complete poppycock.
- 他認(rèn)為官方的解釋是一派胡言,不值一顧.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 4. Your correspondent thinks this is poppycock.
- 本刊記者認(rèn)為這純粹是胡扯.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)