absquatulate
英 [əbˈskwɒ.tʃʊ.leɪt]
美 [əbˈskwɑː.tʃʊ.leɪt]
- vi. 潜逃；拐逃；溜之大吉；开小差
英语词源
- absquatulate (v.)
- 1837, "Facetious U.S. coinage" [Weekley], perhaps based on a mock-Latin negation of squat "to settle." Said to have been used by the U.S. Western character "Nimrod Wildfire" in the play "The Kentuckian," as re-written by British author William B. Bernard and staged in London in 1833. Related: Absquatulated; absquatulating.
权威例句
- 1. He prepared to absquatulate and head for the wilderness.
- 他准备逃往荒野去.
- 2. Book century writing is swung everywhere, study by oneself in scheduled time in the evening absquatulate.
- 书本世纪笔墨到处甩, 晚上自习开小差.