wonky
英語[編輯]
發音[編輯]
- (標準英音) 國際音標(幫助):/ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/
- (通用美式) 英語發音:wŏngʹkē、國際音標(幫助):/ˈwɑŋ.ki/, /ˈwɔŋ.ki/
(美國)音頻 (文檔) (澳洲)音頻 (文檔) - 韻部:-ɒŋki
詞源 1[編輯]
源自英語方言詞 wanky,變換自中古英語 wankel (「不穩的,搖搖晃晃的」),源自古英語 wancol (「不穩定的」),源自原始西日耳曼語 *wankul (「搖曳的,搖晃的,不穩的」)。
形容詞[編輯]
wonky (比較級 wonkier,最高級 wonkiest)
- 歪斜的,偏倚的
- 近義詞: lopsided、awry、misaligned、skew-whiff
- (主要用於英國,澳大利亞,新西蘭) 虛弱的,不穩的,搖搖欲墜的
- 近義詞: rickety
- 1932, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Terror of the Form:
- It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (非正式,計算機,尤指Usenet) 斷斷續續出現錯誤(bug)的
- (非正式) 錯誤的
衍生詞彙[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
wonky (不可數)
- (音樂) 本詞語需要翻譯為漢語。請協助添加,並移除
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模板。- 2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers
- By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative 「purple,」 […]
- 2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers
詞源 2[編輯]
形容詞[編輯]
wonky (比較級 wonkier,最高級 wonkiest)
- 行話的,充滿行話的
- 2009, Jesse Dale Holcomb, Faith, Science and Trust: Climate Change Framing Effects and Conservative Protestant Opinion
- Climate change is an issue that might lend itself more easily to thematic framing in the news, due to the often highly technical and wonky language required to explain it.
- 2010, Michael Maslansky, Scott West, Gary DeMoss, David Saylor, The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics
- McCain's message, while similar in content and equally as valid, is lost in the minutiae of 「'high-risk' pools」 and wonky jargon.
- 2009, Jesse Dale Holcomb, Faith, Science and Trust: Climate Change Framing Effects and Conservative Protestant Opinion