| 正面 | 13198.gimmick 英 ['gɪmɪk]美 ['ɡɪmɪk]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. perhaps an alteration of gimcrack, or that it began as gimac, an anagram of magic.2. gimmick 音“机密客”→机密客的花招.3. game + trick => *gammick => gimmick.4. game + magic => gimmick.5. 谐音“机迷客、给迷客”。n. 暗机关；骗人的玩意；花招vt. 使暗机关；搞骗人的玩意 例句： 1. He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事,只当它是一种宣传手法. gimmick 花招，把戏来自gimcrack的拼写变体，花里胡哨的，花招，把戏。 gimmickgimmick: [20] Gimmick originally meant ‘dishonest contrivance’ – indeed, in the first known printed reference to it, in George Maine’s and Bruce Grant’s Wise-crack dictionary 1926 (an American publication), it is defined specifically as a ‘device for making a fair game crooked’. The modern sense ‘stratagem for gaining attention’ seems to have come to the fore in the 1940s. The origins of the word are a mystery, although it has been suggested that it began as gimac, an anagram of magic used by conjurers.gimmick (n.)1910, American English, perhaps an alteration of gimcrack, or an anagram of magic. In a hotel at Muscatine, Iowa, the other day I twisted the gimmick attached to the radiator, with the intention of having some heat in my Nova Zemblan booth. ["Domestic Engineering," January 8, 1910]" |