heckle

英 ['hek(ə)l] 美 ['hɛkl]

解释

※ 提供单词"heckle"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。

heckle 麻梳，责问，诘问

来自PIE*keg,齿，钩子，词源同hook,hack.用于指麻梳，梳理黄麻的梳子，由于黄麻比较粗糙，梳理时需要用很大力，因此引申词义简单粗暴，责问，诘问。

heckle (v.): early 14c., "to comb (flax or hemp) with a heckle;" from heckle (n.) or from related Middle Dutch hekelen. Figurative meaning "to question severely in a bid to uncover weakness" is from late 18c. "Long applied in Scotland to the public questioning of parliamentary candidates" [OED]. Related: Heckled; heckling.
heckle (n.): "flax comb," c. 1300, hechel, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *hecel or a cognate Germanic word (such as Middle High German hechel, Middle Dutch hekel), from Proto-Germanic *hakila-, from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth" (see hook (n.)).

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1. The offending comment was in fact a heckle from an audience member.: 这番冒犯性的话实际上是一名观众的诘难。

2. A small group of youths stayed behind to heckle and shout abuse.: 一小群小青年没走，在起哄、叫骂。

4. Europe has continued to haunt and heckle the American imagination.: 欧洲终久还是紧紧缠着美国人的心,耿耿难安.

5. The reporter wanted to heckle the candidate with those embarrassing questions.: 记者想用那些让人难为情的问题来刁难这位候选人.