hick是什么意思_hick怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

awkwardly simple and provincial;"bumpkinly country boys"
"rustic farmers"
"a hick town"
"the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"

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中英词源

hick 乡巴佬

来自人名Richard昵称，词义贬义化或被恶搞。比较dick,doll,wally,willy.

hick (n.): late 14c. as a pet form of masc. proper name Richard. Meaning "awkward provincial person" was established by 1700 (see rube); earlier it was the characteristic name of a hosteler, hackneyman, etc. (late 14c.), perhaps via alliteration. The adjective is recorded by 1914.
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn"t be. [attributed to U.S. humorist Robert Quillen (1887-1948)]

词态变化

复数 hicks;

权威造句

1. He is an obnoxious hick.: 他是个讨厌的乡巴佬。

2. I was just a hick from Texas then.: 那时我不过是从得克萨斯来的土包子。

3. Graeme Hick scored an unbeaten 58 as Worcestershire replied to Middlesex"s 202 with 132-3.: 格雷姆·希克未出局拿得58分，从而使伍斯特郡队以132分3人出局的成绩回敬了米德尔塞克斯队的202分。

4. " Listen, kid, I was worried when I couldn"t get ahold of you in that hick town.: “ 你听着, 小鬼,当我派的人到你那个乡下小镇去找不到你的时候, 我还很担心哪.

5. Once the hero of Jefferson , the virtuous husbandman, he was the rube, the hick, the hayseed.: 一度被杰斐逊奉为英雄的农民, 昔日俨然是男子汉大丈夫,而今却一落千丈,成了乡下人、庄稼汉、乡巴佬.

近反义词

provincial 省的

unsophisticated 不谙世故的

yokel 乡下佬

bumpkinly 粗人地

hayseed 干草种子

chawbacon <贬>乡下人

bumpkin 乡巴佬

rube 不谙世事的农村人...

rustic 乡村的

yahoo 粗人

相似短语

hick joint 平勾缝

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