ballyhoo

英 [bælɪ'huː] 美 ['bælɪhu]

解释

※ 提供单词"ballyhoo"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

ballyhoo 大吹大擂

可能来自拟声词。

ballyhoo: ballyhoo: [20] Ballyhoo remains an etymological mystery, but there is no shortage of suggested candidates as its source: an Irish village called Ballyhooly; an old nautical slang word ballyhoo meaning ‘unseaworthy vessel’, which seems to have been an anglicization of Spanish balahú ‘schooner’; and the bizarre late- 19th-century ballyhoo bird, a fake bird made of wood and cardboard and intended to fool a birdhunter. None of them, alas, seems remotely relevant to ballyhoo’s original American sense, ‘barker’s patter outside a circus tent, to encourage people to enter’.
ballyhoo (n.): "publicity, hype," 1908, from circus slang, "a short sample of a sideshow" (1901), which is of unknown origin. There is a village of Ballyhooly in County Cork, Ireland. In nautical lingo, ballahou or ballahoo (1867, perhaps 1836) meant "an ungainly vessel," from Spanish balahu "schooner."

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1. They announced, amid much ballyhoo, that they had made a breakthrough.: 在一通大吹大擂中，他们宣布自己取得了突破。

2. The candidate's campaign was attended with too much ballyhoo.: 对候选人的竞选宣传得太过分了.

3. I have never heard so much ballyhoo for such lousy movie.: 对这样一部糟糕透顶的影片进行如此的夸大其词的大吹大擂的宣传,我还从没听说过.

4. In Taiwan, many candidates ballyhoo their campaigning in the street.: 在台湾, 许多候选人在街上为他们的竞选活动大举造势.

5. The company was too conservative to indulge in ballyhoo in its advertising.: 这公司太过保守以至于在它的广告上没办法尽情大举造势.