fiddlesticks
英语
[编辑]其他形式
[编辑]- (感叹词)： fiddlestick (過時)
词源
[编辑]约17世纪，英国。源自fiddlestick，源自晚期中古英語 fidillstyk (“（小提琴的）弓”)。
发音
[编辑]叹词
[编辑]fiddlesticks
- (委婉) 胡说！乱讲！
- Fiddlesticks! It's nothing but smoke and mirrors!
- 胡说！这都是障眼法！
- 1701, George Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair, act 4, scene 2; republished in The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar, volume 1, London: John C. Nimmo, 1892, page 295:
- Golden pleasures! golden fiddlesticks!—What d'ye tell me of your canting stuff?
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- 1840, Henry Downes Miles, Dick Turpin:
- "Taken the veil—taken fiddlesticks!" said the old man, merrily; "why she lives near Lincoln, is married to a substantial man, the junior partner of one of the wealthiest bankers in the county […]
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- 1923 October 6, Agatha Christie, “The Case of the Veiled Lady”, in The Sketch, number 1601:
- 'Safe? Fiddlesticks! There is no safe. Mr Lavington is an intelligent man. You will see, he will have devised a hiding-place much more intelligent than a safe. A safe is the first thing everyone looks for.'
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- 1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 23:
- “Fiddlesticks,” Miss Jenny said. “The war just gave John a good excuse to get himself killed. If it hadn’t been that, it would have been some other way that would have been a bother to everybody around.”
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- (委婉) 靠！啧！哎呀！ （表达不快，沮丧；现在多被视作fuck的委婉词）
- Oh, fiddlesticks! I locked my keys in the car.
- 哎呀！我把钥匙锁在车里了。
近义词
[编辑]- (胡说)： 见Thesaurus:bullshit
- (表达不快)： 见Thesaurus:dammit
名词
[编辑]fiddlesticks
参考资料
[编辑]- Douglas Harper （2001–2026），「fiddlestick」，收錄於 《zh-hant:線上詞源詞典; zh-hans:在线词源词典》（Online Etymology Dictionary），於 2019年6月9日 擷取。