egghead
英 ['eghed]
美['?ɡh?d]
- n. 理論家；受過高等教育的人；書呆子
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?eggheads;
中文詞源
egghead 學(xué)究
字面意思即學(xué)究，聰明絕頂。
英英釋意
- 1. an intellectual (who is bald?)
英文詞源
- egghead (n.)
- also egg-head, 1907, "bald person," from egg (n.) + head (n.). Sense of "intellectual" is attested from 1918, among Chicago newspapermen; popularized by U.S. syndicated columnist Stewart Alsop in 1952 in reference to Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign.
Adlai Stevenson once told what it was like to be the rare intellectual in politics. "Via ovicapitum dura est," he said, the way of the egghead is hard. [New York Times, Oct. 28, 1982]
實用場景例句
- The Government was dominated by self-important eggheads.
- 政府被一群自以為是的書呆子控制著。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- In spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead.
- 盡管她愛好閱讀,但她不認(rèn)為自己是個書呆子.
期刊摘選
- You are a real egghead!
- 你真是個書呆子!
期刊摘選
- You solved the problem in 5 minutes. You are a real egghead!
- 你5分鐘就解出這道題了, 真是聰明!
期刊摘選
- That egghead published a new theory of matter last month.
- 那位知識分子上個月發(fā)表了一個新的物質(zhì)論.
辭典例句