crackpot
英 ['krækpɒt]
美 ['krækpɑt]
- n. 狂想家，疯子；怪人
- adj. 不切实际的，想入非非的
英文词源
- crackpot (n.)
- "mentally unbalanced person," 1898, probably from crack (v.) + pot (n.1) in a slang sense of "head." Compare crack-brain "crazy fellow" (late 16c.). Earlier it was used in a slang sense "a small-time big-shot" (1883), and by medical doctors in reference to a "metallic chinking sometimes heard when percussion is made over a cavity which communicates with a bronchus."
双语例句
- 1. She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us.
- 她和我们一样正常。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. That's not the way to do it, you crackpot.
- 不是那样做的蠢材.
来自辞典例句
- 3. He was prone to dismiss himself as " that well - known crackpot ".
- 他常自嘲为 “ 那个著名的怪人 ”.
来自辞典例句
- 4. That crackpot thinks his neighbors are aliens.
- 那位疯子认为他的邻居是外星人.
来自辞典例句