| 单词 | topsy-turvy |
|---|---|
| 音标 | [`tɔpsi'tə:vi] |
| 解释 | adj. 颠倒的，相反的；乱七八糟的，混乱的 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 adj.颠倒的, 混乱的(in a state of confusion) 【考】 反义词: tranquil(安静的) |
| 字源 | topsy-turvy (adv.) 1520s, "but prob. in popular use from an earlier period" [OED]; compare top over terve "to fall over" (mid-15c.); likely from tops, plural of top (n.1) "highest point" + obsolete terve "turn upside down, topple over," from Old English tearflian "to roll over, overturn," from Proto-Germanic *terbanan (cognates: Old High German zerben "to turn round"). Century Dictionary calls it "A word which, owing to its popular nature, its alliterative type, and to ignorance of its origin, leading to various perversions made to suggest some plausible origin, has undergone, besides the usual variations of spelling, extraordinary modifications of form." It lists 31 variations. As an adjective from 1610s. |
| 不择手段背单词 | adj. 上下颠倒的, 混乱的 【记】topsy = top, turvy = turn: 上下颠倒的 【反】tranquil(adj 安静的) |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】top顶 + turf 草皮,顶端碰到草皮,颠倒 |
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