gold-brick
英 ['ɡəʊldbr'ɪk]
美 ['ɡoʊldbr'ɪk]
- v. 逃避勤务；装病
英语词源
- gold-brick (n.)
- "gold in the form of a brick," 1853, from gold (adj.) + brick (n.). Meaning "shirker" is from 1914, World War I armed forces slang, from earlier verb meaning "to swindle, cheat" (1902) from the old con game of selling spurious "gold" bricks (attested by 1881).
权威例句
- 1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
- 他们偶然来到一个居住着一位狡诈的淘金者的废墟之城。
- 2. He entered for many competitions, winning several gold medals.
- 他参加过多次比赛，赢得了数枚金牌。
- 3. This little ball of gold weighs a quarter of an ounce.
- 这个小金球重0.25盎司。
- 4. The boys were as good as gold on our walk.
- 我们散步的时候，这帮小男孩表现得很乖。
- 5. It was an unbelievable moment when Chris won the gold medal.
- 克里斯赢得金牌的那一刻令人不可思议。