do-gooder
英 [ˈduː.ɡʊd.ər]
美 [ˈduː.ɡʊd.ɚ]
- n. 空想社会改良家
英语词源
- do-gooder (n.)
- "a person who seeks to correct social ills in an idealistic, but usually impractical or superficial, way," 1650s (as do-good), in "Zootomia, or Observations on the Present Manners of the English: Briefly Anatomizing the Living by the Dead. With An Usefull Detection of the Mountebanks of Both Sexes," written by Richard Whitlock, a medical doctor. Probably used even then with a taint of impractical idealism. Modern pejorative use seems to have begun on the socialist left, mocking those who were unwilling to take a hard line. OED has this citation, from "The Nation" in 1923:
There is nothing the matter with the United States except ... the parlor socialists, up-lifters, and do-goods.
The form do-gooder appears in American English from 1927, presumably because do-good was no longer felt as sufficiently noun-like. A slightly older word for this was goo-goo.
权威例句
- 1. Look, you've typed " do " as'so " , and made nonsense of the whole sentence.
- 瞧, 你把do打成了so, 这样一来句子就不通了.
- 2. Beauty is an attitude. It has nothing to do with age.
- 美是一种态度，与年龄无关。
- 3. The best thing to do when entering unknown territory is smile.
- 踏入未知地带最好的对策就是微笑。
- 4. Failure is never quite so frightening as regret do.
- 比失败更令人恐惧的是懊悔。
- 5. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
- 我们活着是为了什么？不就是给邻居当笑柄，再反过来笑他们。
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