cretin基本信息
读法：英 ["kretɪn] 美 ["kritn]
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英英释义
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中英词源
cretin 笨蛋
来自Christian的委婉语。比较口语”Jesus Christ”.
- cretin
- cretin: [18] In the Swiss-French dialect of the high Alps the term creitin or crestin (their version of christian) was applied to people suffering from mental handicap and stunted growth – the notion being to emphasize that despite their abnormalities, such people were nevertheless as much human beings as any other ‘Christian’. The word was adopted (via French crétin) as a clinical term for someone suffering from dwarfism and mental retardation as a result of a congenital thyroid deficiency, and was subsequently broadened out, towards the end of the 19th century, as a general disparaging term for a ‘fool’.
=> christian - cretin (n.)
- 1779, from French crétin (18c.), from Alpine dialect crestin, "a dwarfed and deformed idiot" of a type formerly found in families in the Alpine lands, a condition caused by a congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones, from Vulgar Latin *christianus "a Christian," a generic term for "anyone," but often with a sense of "poor fellow." Related: Cretinism (1801).
词态变化
复数 cretins;
形容词 cretinous;
权威造句
- 1. Why did you do that, you cretin?
- 你为什么这样做，你这个傻瓜？
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- 2. Why else would I have chosen such a disreputable looking cretin?
- 为什么我选中的其他人象个白痴?
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- 3. Why did you do that, you cretin?
- 你为什么做那事, 你这个笨蛋?
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