weasel是什么意思_weasel怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

weasel (n.): Old English weosule, wesle "weasel," from Proto-Germanic *wisulon (cognates: Old Norse visla, Middle Dutch wesel, Dutch wezel, Old High German wisula, German Wiesel), probably related to Proto-Germanic *wisand- "bison" (see bison), with a base sense of "stinking animal," because both animals have a foul, musky smell (compare Latin vissio "stench"). A John Wesilheued ("John Weaselhead") turns up on the Lincolnshire Assize Rolls for 1384, but the name seems not to have endured, for some reason. Related: Weaselly.
weasel (v.): "to deprive (a word or phrase) of its meaning," 1900, from weasel (n.); so used because the weasel sucks out the contents of eggs, leaving the shell intact. Both this and weasel-word are first attested in "The Stained-Glass Political Platform," a short story by Stewart Chaplin, first printed in "Century Magazine," June 1900:
"Why, weasel words are words that suck all the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks an egg and leaves the shell. If you heft the egg afterward it"s as light as a feather, and not very filling when you"re hungry; but a basketful of them would make quite a show, and would bamboozle the unwary."
They were picked up at once in American political slang. The sense of "extricate oneself (from a difficult place) like a weasel" is first recorded 1925; that of "to evade and equivocate" is from 1956. Related: Weasled; weasling.

词态变化

复数 weasels;

1. Fox, badger, weasel and stoat are regularly seen here.: 狐狸、獾、黄鼠狼和白鼬在这里很常见。

4. Weasel here could be my wife or my sister for all I know.: 这位Weasel可能是我的妻子或姐妹,这可说不准.

5. He might be a bore, but he was as quick-witted as a weasel.: 他也许是个很无聊的人，可是却像黄鼠狼一样机灵。

weasel out 退出

weasel words 遁词

catch a weasel asleep 乘人不备

yellow weasel 牧地香豌豆

pygmy weasel 推断品系

snow weasel 银鼠

weasel-worded 蓄意说得模棱两可的...

weasel-faced 瘦长脸的

weasel word 滑头话, 含糊其辞的...

pop goes the weasel 1850年前后流行的...

weasel out v. 退出,逃避责任

weasel word 含糊其词的话, 模棱两可的话

weasel from v. 逃避

creeping weasel 爬行式探测仪

yellow weasel n. 黄鼠狼

raw weasel skin 黄狼皮

weasel words n. 遁辞

shorttail weasel phr. 短尾鼬

weasel from an obligation 【法】逃避责任

old world least weasel phr. 伶鼬

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