| 英语单词 | wacky |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['wæki] 美 ['wæki] |
| 中文释义 | adj.(行为等)古怪的;愚蠢的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Physicists hope to find a new astronomy and test some wacky ideas. (2) They came dressed in wacky costumes for the "Black Ball" street parade. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 物理学家们试图开展新的天文学来检测一些新奇古怪的想法。 (2) 他们身着奇里古怪的衣服参加“黑球”大街的游行。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Something that's wacky is weird or nutty or silly. Your goofy uncle who wears a funny hat and does magic tricks at the dinner table is wacky. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Use the adjective wacky when you're talking about someone with a ridiculous sense of humor. Clowns are, by definition, wacky, for example. Most people have at least one wacky relative, and some are lucky enough to have entire wacky families. Wacky comes from the nineteenth century British slang term whacky, which arose from whack, specifically the idea of getting whacked on the head so hard that it turns you wacky. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]古怪的;乖僻的;滑稽可笑的 If you describe something or someone as wacky, you mean that they are eccentric, unusual, and often funny. [INFORMAL 非正式]
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