单词 | 怪念头 |
释义 | 〔fancy〕A capricious notion; a whim.奇想:反复无常的怪想;怪念头〔whim〕A sudden or capricious idea; a fancy.心血来潮:一个突然产生的或忽发奇想的念头;怪念头〔caprice〕"This is a time of life when a solicitous family does well to watch affectionately over the vagaries of its unattached relatives,particularly of those who are comfortably off" (J.P. Marquand). “这个时期的生活中,一个乐意帮忙的家庭总是充满爱意地观注着那些与它关系并不密切的亲戚们的古怪或狂妄的念头,特别是那些相当富足的家庭的怪念头” (J·P·马昆德)。〔crotchet〕An odd, whimsical, or stubborn notion.怪念头:奇怪的、奇异的或顽固的想法〔capriccioso〕from capriccio [caprice] * see caprice 源自 capriccio [异想,怪念头] * 参见 caprice〔whimsicality〕A whimsical idea or its expression; a caprice.怪念头:异想天开的念头或表述;怪念头〔fad〕Although we do not know for certain the origin offad, first recorded in 1834with the sense "whim, crotchet,”we can suggest one possibility.In 1754, 80 years before this occurrence offad, we find an instance of the wordfidfad, meaning "a fussy person":"The youngest . . . is, in everything she does, an absolute fidfad.”Fidfad is found in the latter part of the 19th century with the sense "small detail, frill,” and the adjectivefidfad, meaning "frivolous, fussy, petty,” is recorded in 1830.Fad could thus be a shortened form of fidfad, itself shortened from fiddle-faddle. 尽管我们不能确定fad 的起源, 它于1834年首次被记录,用于表达“怪念头,异常态度或习惯”这一意思,我们仍可以提出一种可能。在1754年,比fad 的出现早80年, 我们发现了一个词例fidfad, 表示“一个小题大作的人”:“这个年轻人…所做的一切事情都完全地小题大作。”在19世纪下半叶,fidfad 被发现有“小的细节,饰边”的意思, 而且形容词fidfad 还表示“无用的,大惊小怪的,不重要的”的意思, 于1830年被记录。因此Fad 可能是 fiddle-faddle 被缩写为 fidfad 后的简便形式 |
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