fiddle-faddle
英 ['fidlf?dl]
美
- adj. 瑣碎的；無聊的
- n. 無聊事；懶人
- int. 無聊！
- vi. 瞎搞
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?fiddle-faddles;過去式:?fiddle-faddled;過去分詞:?fiddle-faddled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?fiddle-faddling;
英文詞源
- fiddle-faddle
- 1570s, "trifles" (n.); 1630s "busy oneself with trifles; talk nonsense" (v.), apparently a reduplication of obsolete faddle "to trifle," or of fiddle in its contemptuous sense.
雙語例句
- 1. Police investigating a ￡10 million car insurance fiddle arrested 16 people yesterday.
- 調(diào)查涉及1,000萬英鎊的汽車保險詐騙案的警察昨天逮捕了16人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Two of them got out to fiddle around with the engine.
- 其中兩人下車鼓搗引擎。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She hated the thought of playing second fiddle to Rose.
- 想到要身居羅斯之下她就很郁悶。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Hardy as a young man played the fiddle at local dances.
- 哈迪年輕時在當?shù)匚钑涎葑嘈√崆佟?/dd>
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. He brought out the fiddle, its varnish cracked and blistered.
- 他取出了小提琴，它表面的清漆已出現(xiàn)裂縫，還起了浮泡。
來自柯林斯例句