ballyhoo
英 [ˌbæl.iˈhuː]
美 [ˌbæl.iˈhuː]
- n. 大肆宣传；大吹大擂
- vi. 大肆宣传；大吹大擂
- vt. 大肆宣传；大吹大擂
记忆方法
将“ballyhoo”想象成一个在“ball”球场上大声喧哗和招揽观众的人，因为他们的“hoo”声音很大，以此形象记忆这个单词，它表示的是喧嚣的招揽声或过度的宣传。
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中文词源
ballyhoo 大吹大擂
可能来自拟声词。
英语词源
- ballyhoo
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ballyhoo: [20] Ballyhoo remains an etymological mystery, but there is no shortage of suggested candidates as its source: an Irish village called Ballyhooly; an old nautical slang word ballyhoo meaning ‘unseaworthy vessel’, which seems to have been an anglicization of Spanish balahú ‘schooner’; and the bizarre late- 19th-century ballyhoo bird, a fake bird made of wood and cardboard and intended to fool a birdhunter. None of them, alas, seems remotely relevant to ballyhoo’s original American sense, ‘barker’s patter outside a circus tent, to encourage people to enter’.
- ballyhoo (n.)
- "publicity, hype," 1908, from circus slang, "a short sample of a sideshow" (1901), which is of unknown origin. There is a village of Ballyhooly in County Cork, Ireland. In nautical lingo, ballahou or ballahoo (1867, perhaps 1836) meant "an ungainly vessel," from Spanish balahu "schooner."
权威例句
- 1. They announced, amid much ballyhoo, that they had made a breakthrough.
- 在一通大吹大擂中，他们宣布自己取得了突破。
- 2. The candidate's campaign was attended with too much ballyhoo.
- 对候选人的竞选宣传得太过分了.
- 3. I have never heard so much ballyhoo for such lousy movie.
- 对这样一部糟糕透顶的影片进行如此的夸大其词的大吹大擂的宣传,我还从没听说过.
- 4. In Taiwan, many candidates ballyhoo their campaigning in the street.
- 在台湾, 许多候选人在街上为他们的竞选活动大举造势.
- 5. The company was too conservative to indulge in ballyhoo in its advertising.
- 这公司太过保守以至于在它的广告上没办法尽情大举造势.