crackpot
英 [ˈkræk.pɒt]
美 [ˈkræk.pɑːt]
- n. 狂想家，疯子；怪人
- adj. 不切实际的，想入非非的
记忆方法
记住“crackpot”的方法是将它拆解为两个部分：“crack”和“pot”。想象一个“pot”（罐子）因为被“crack”（裂缝）损坏而破裂，这个罐子就像是一个疯狂或者古怪的人，因此“crackpot”代表一个疯狂或古怪的人。
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英语词源
- crackpot (n.)
- "mentally unbalanced person," 1898, probably from crack (v.) + pot (n.1) in a slang sense of "head." Compare crack-brain "crazy fellow" (late 16c.). Earlier it was used in a slang sense "a small-time big-shot" (1883), and by medical doctors in reference to a "metallic chinking sometimes heard when percussion is made over a cavity which communicates with a bronchus."
权威例句
- 1. She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us.
- 她和我们一样正常。
- 2. That's not the way to do it, you crackpot.
- 不是那样做的蠢材.
- 3. He was prone to dismiss himself as " that well - known crackpot ".
- 他常自嘲为 “ 那个著名的怪人 ”.
- 4. He got the crackpot that the president is a Communist.
- 他疯狂地以为总统是共产党员.
- 5. That crackpot thinks his neighbors are aliens.
- 那位疯子认为他的邻居是外星人.
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