toady

簡明英漢詞典

toady

[5tEudi]

n.

諂媚者, 拍馬屁的人

v.

諂媚, 拍馬屁

美國傳統(tǒng)詞典[雙解]

toady

toad.y

AHD:[t?“d?]

D.J.[6toudi8]

K.K.[6todi]

n.（名詞）

【復(fù)數(shù)】 toad.ies

A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.

諂媚者：出于私利而吹捧或尊敬他人的人；拍馬者

v.tr.intr.（及物動(dòng)詞和不及物動(dòng)詞）

toad.ied[t?“d?d] toad.y.ing， toad.ies[t?“d?z]

To be a toady to or behave like a toady.See Synonyms at fawn 1

拍…的馬屁：向…拍馬或表現(xiàn)得象個(gè)拍馬者參見 fawn1

語源

From toad

源自 toad

注釋

A toady is not a pleasant individual, and the origin of the word makes being a toady even less pleasant. Toady is obviously derived from the word toad. The -y suffix can have diminutive force, and the earliest recorded sense (around 1690) of toady (now obsolete), “a little or young toad,” illustrates this force. The sense we know has nothing to do with baby toads but rather with the practice of certain quacks or charlatans who claimed that they could cast out poison. Toads were thought to be poisonous, so these charlatans would have an attendant eat a toad or pretend to eat one and then remove the poison from the attendant. Such an attendant is obviously a type of person who would do anything, and thus toadeater (first recorded 1629) was the perfect name for a flattering, fawning parasite. Toadeater and the verb derived from it, toadeat, influenced the sense of the noun and verb toad and the noun toady, so that both nouns could mean “sycophant” and the verb toady could mean “to act like a toady to someone.”

拍馬者并不是一個(gè)討人喜歡的人，這個(gè)詞的來源使做拍馬者這種作法更加不令人喜歡。Toady 很顯然是從 toad 這個(gè)詞衍生而來。 后輟-y 可以有一種指小的效力， Toady 這個(gè)詞最早有記載(1690年左右）的含義“一只小或幼年蟾蜍”（現(xiàn)已廢棄）正說明了這種效力。 我們現(xiàn)在知道的含義與年幼的蟾蜍沒有什么關(guān)系，而與某些宣稱能夠驅(qū)毒的冒牌醫(yī)生或江湖郎中的某些做法有關(guān)。當(dāng)時(shí)人們認(rèn)為蟾蜍有毒，所以這些江湖朗中會(huì)叫一個(gè)手下人吃下一只蟾蜍或假裝吃下一只蟾蜍，然后把毒物從他的手下人身體中驅(qū)除出去。很明顯，這樣一個(gè)幫手是一種什么事都會(huì)做的人，這樣，用toadeater （最早記載于1629年）這個(gè)詞來稱呼奉承拍馬的寄生者是再合適不過了。 Toadeater 和從它衍生而來的動(dòng)詞 toadeat 影響了作為名詞或動(dòng)詞的 toad 和作為名詞 toady 的含義， 于是二個(gè)名詞都可以理解為“拍馬者”的意思，而動(dòng)詞toady 有“在某人面前象一個(gè)拍馬者一樣行動(dòng)”的意思

現(xiàn)代英漢詞典

toady

[5tEJdI]

vt., vi.

-ied, -ying

奉承；巴結(jié)；諂媚

現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大辭典

toady

[5tEudi]

n.

拍馬屁的人

詞性變化

toady

[5tEudi]

vt., vi.

諂媚, 奉承

繼承用法

toadyish

adj.

toadyishly

adv.

toadyism

n.

美國傳統(tǒng)詞典

toady

toad.y

AHD:[t?“d?]

D.J.[6toudi8]

K.K.[6todi]

n.

pl. toad.ies

A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.

v.tr.intr.

toad.ied[t?“d?d] toad.y.ing, toad.ies[t?“d?z]

To be a toady to or behave like a toady.See Synonyms at fawn 1

語源

From toad

注釋

A toady is not a pleasant individual, and the origin of the word makes being a toady even less pleasant. Toady is obviously derived from the word toad. The -y suffix can have diminutive force, and the earliest recorded sense (around 1690) of toady (now obsolete), “a little or young toad,” illustrates this force. The sense we know has nothing to do with baby toads but rather with the practice of certain quacks or charlatans who claimed that they could cast out poison. Toads were thought to be poisonous, so these charlatans would have an attendant eat a toad or pretend to eat one and then remove the poison from the attendant. Such an attendant is obviously a type of person who would do anything, and thus toadeater (first recorded 1629) was the perfect name for a flattering, fawning parasite. Toadeater and the verb derived from it, toadeat, influenced the sense of the noun and verb toad and the noun toady, so that both nouns could mean “sycophant” and the verb toady could mean “to act like a toady to someone.”