footle
英 ['fu:tl]
美 [ˈfutl]
- vi. 做笨事;说呆话;浪费时间
- n. 呆话;傻事
- adj. 无价值的;不重要的
记忆“footle”这个单词可以通过将其分解为两个部分来帮助记忆:首部分“foot”代表“脚”,第二部分“-le”在英语中常用于小型的动作或行为。因此,可以将“footle”想象成一个轻微、不断踩脚的动作,或者是一个没有明确目的的踱步。这种方法通过将单词与一个动作或图像关联起来,帮助记忆其含义。
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footle 闲混词源不详。可能来自foot, 脚。-le,表反复。即走来走去,闲混。
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footle: [19] Footling appears to have originated as a euphemistic equivalent to fucking. It probably comes from a dialectal footer ‘mess about, fuck around’, which may well have been acquired from French foutre ‘copulate with’, a descendant of Latin futuere ‘copulate with’ (whose origin is not known).
- footle (v.)
- "to trifle," 1892, from dialectal footer "to trifle," footy "mean, paltry" (1752), perhaps from French se foutre "to care nothing," from Old French futer "to copulate with," from Latin futuere "have sex," originally "to strike, thrust" (see confute). But OED derives the English dialect words from foughty (c. 1600), from Dutch vochtig or Danish fugtig "damp, musty;" related to fog (n.).
- 1. I wish he would not footle about so much.
- 我希望他不要这样混日子.