wimp
英 [wɪmp]
美 [wɪmp]
- n. 懦弱的人；无能的人
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中文词源
wimp 懦夫
可能缩写自whimper，拟声词，哭泣，呜咽，引申义懦夫。
英语词源
- wimp
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wimp: [20] The first record of the word wimp ‘feeble ineffectual person’ is from as long ago as 1920, but it was not used at all widely until the early 1960s. Its origins have never been satisfactorily explained. It is tempting to link it with J. Wellington Wimpy, a curious little man with a moustache who featured in the Popeye cartoons, but he was not around in the 1920s.
Nor is it altogether plausible that it came from American slang gimp ‘lame or handicapped person’. Perhaps the least unlikely suggestion is that it is short for whimper. No connection with the now obsolete slang wimp ‘woman’ [20] (perhaps an alteration of women) has ever been demonstrated. In the 1980s WIMP was used as an acronym for ‘weakly interacting massive particle’ and for ‘widows/icon/mouse/pointer’, a computer term.
- wimp (n.)
- 1920 (but not attested again until 1960), perhaps a clipped form of whimper (cf whimp, 1540s), perhaps influenced by J. Wellington Wimpy, comparatively unaggressive character in "Popeye" comics.
- wimp (v.)
- 1986, with out (adv.), from wimp (n.). Related: Wimped; wimping.
权威例句
- 1. He's such a, snotty - nosed little ` wimp.
- 他是个高傲而懦弱的人.
- 2. The more she called her husband a wimp, the more timid he became.
- 她越叫她先生懦夫, 他就越胆小怯懦.
- 3. Stop being a wimp Owl and take my playing like a man!
- 别胆怯了白枭,认真对待我的演奏!
- 4. If you agree to all her likes, you are a wimp.
- 如果你完全赞同她的话, 那你真无能.
- 5. They report their work in the current edition of Science.
- 如果将WIMP描述成这样的粒子,就再好不过了.
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