scarecrow稻草人

scarecrow

英 ['skeəkrəʊ]

美

n. 稻草人，威吓物；衣衫褴褛的人

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中文词源

scarecrow 稻草人scare,惊吓，crow,乌鸦。比喻用法。

英文词源

scarecrow (n.)1550s, from scare (v.) + crow (n.). Earliest reference is to a person employed to scare birds. Meaning "device of straw and cloth in grotesque resemblance of a man, set up in a grain field or garden to frighten crows," is implied by 1580s; hence "gaunt, ridiculous person" (1590s). An older name for such a thing was shewel. Shoy-hoy apparently is another old word for a straw-stuffed scarecrow (Cobbett began using it as a political insult in 1819 and others picked it up; OED defines it as "one who scares away birds from a sown field," and says it is imitative of their cry). Also fray-boggard (1530s).

双语例句

1. Then he took a poke at my hair, telling me I looked like a scarecrow! 然后他开始嘲笑我的头发, 说我看起来像个稻草人! 来自《简明英汉词典》

2. Look at you a regular scarecrow! 你自己看看,谁像你这样特别! 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

3. I don't mean to be married to that old scarecrow. 我可不愿意嫁给那个老稻草人. 来自辞典例句

4. In his holiday clothes, he was more like a scarecrow in good circumstances. 他穿上节日的服装, 活活象个装点得挺考究的稻草人. 来自辞典例句

5. Aren't you sick of playing a scarecrow? 你扮演稻草人难道不觉得无聊 吗 ? 来自电影对白