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crackpot

英 ['krækpɒt] 美 ['krækpɑt]

解释

n. 狂想家，疯子；怪人
adj. 不切实际的，想入非非的

※ 提供单词"crackpot"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。

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."

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例句和用法

1. She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us.: 她和我们一样正常。

2. That's not the way to do it, you crackpot.: 不是那样做的蠢材.

3. He was prone to dismiss himself as " that well - known crackpot ".: 他常自嘲为 “ 那个著名的怪人 ”.

4. That crackpot thinks his neighbors are aliens.: 那位疯子认为他的邻居是外星人.