hayseed
英 ['he?si?d]
美['he,sid]
- n. 鄉巴佬；干草種子，干草屑
英文詞源
- hayseed (n.)
- also hay-seed, 1570s, "grass seed shaken out of hay," from hay + seed (n.). In U.S. slang sense of "comical rustic" it dates from 1875. To have hayseed in (one's) hair was a common mid-19c. way in U.S. to indicate a country person.
The opinion of the court was delivered by Justice Hunt; the chief justice, in whose hair the Ohio hayseed still lingers, delivering a dissenting opinion (etc.) ["The Chronicle," New York, Nov. 12, 1874]
雙語例句
- 1. Once the hero of Jefferson , the virtuous husbandman, he was the rube, the hick, the hayseed.
- 一度被杰斐遜奉為英雄的農民, 昔日儼然是男子漢大丈夫,而今卻一落千丈,成了鄉下人 、 莊稼漢 、 鄉巴佬.
來自辭典例句
- 2. Most farmer have a stereo type hayseed image.
- 大部分農民都有一副固定的鄉巴佬形象.
來自互聯網
