中文词源
spook 鬼怪，幽灵，间谍，特工
来自荷兰语 spook,鬼怪，幽灵，词源不详，可能改写自 specter,鬼怪，幽灵。引申词义间谍 ， 特工，字面意思即内鬼。
英语词源
- spook (n.)
- 1801, "spectre, apparition, ghost," from Dutch spook, from Middle Dutch spooc "spook, ghost," from a common Germanic source (German Spuk "ghost, apparition," Middle Low German spok "spook," Swedish spok "scarecrow," Norwegian spjok "ghost, specter," Danish spøg "joke"), of unknown origin. According to Klein's sources, possible outside connections include Lettish spigana "dragon, witch," spiganis "will o' the wisp," Lithuanian spingu, spingeti "to shine," Old Prussian spanksti "spark."
Meaning "undercover agent" is attested from 1942. The derogatory racial sense of "black person" is attested from 1940s, perhaps from notion of dark skin being difficult to see at night. Black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institute during World War II called themselves the Spookwaffe. - spook (v.)
- 1867, "to walk or act like a ghost," from spook (n.). Meaning "to unnerve" is from 1935. Related: Spooked; spooking.
权威例句
- 1. At night, he would creep out of the house like a spook.
- 夜间, 他常常像幽灵一般地从家里偷偷地出来.
- 2. I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe.
- 我不是缠磨着埃德加·爱伦·坡的那种幽灵.
- 3. Refrigerators . I killed that poor spook over hot refrigerators?
- 冰箱为了他妈的冰箱逼我杀了那鬼?
- 4. Don't let the repoter spook you, and you have to behave urbanely.
- 别让记者缠住你, 而你还得举止文雅.
- 5. Something furry grazed Spook's calf as It'shot between his legs.
- 一个毛茸茸的东西擦过斯布克的小腿,象是从他两腿之间跑过去了.
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