记忆方法
将“egghead”分解为两个部分：egg（鸡蛋）和head（头）。想象一个鸡蛋形状的大脑，代表着这个人非常聪明，喜欢思考或者在某些领域有深度知识，这样就能记住“egghead”表示的是“书呆子”或“聪明人”。
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词族 · egghead
词形变化
中文词源
egghead 学究
字面意思即学究，聪明绝顶。
英语词源
- egghead (n.)
- also egg-head, 1907, "bald person," from egg (n.) + head (n.). Sense of "intellectual" is attested from 1918, among Chicago newspapermen; popularized by U.S. syndicated columnist Stewart Alsop in 1952 in reference to Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign.
Adlai Stevenson once told what it was like to be the rare intellectual in politics. "Via ovicapitum dura est," he said, the way of the egghead is hard. [New York Times, Oct. 28, 1982]
权威例句
- 1. That egghead published a new theory of matter last month.
- 那位知识分子上个月发表了一个新的物质论.
- 2. In spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead.
- 尽管她爱好阅读,但她不认为自己是个书呆子.
- 3. You solved the problem in 5 minutes. You are a real egghead!
- 你5分钟就解出这道题了, 真是聪明!
- 4. You are a real egghead!
- 你真是个书呆子!