词族 · lapdog
词形变化
中文词源
lapdog 哈巴狗
lap,大腿，dog,狗。
英语词源
- lapdog (n.)
- also lap-dog, 1640s, from lap (n.) + dog (n.); figurative sense of "subservient person" is by 1950.
Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) renewed his Communists-in-Government charges today and called Senator Tydings (D-Md) the Truman administration's "whimpering lap dog." [AP news story, Aug. 7, 1950]
权威例句
- 1. A MAN had an Ass Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty.
- 主人有一头驴子, 整日关在栏里吃草.
- 2. Blair said he had learned to live with taunts of being Bush's " poodle " or " lapdog. "
- 布莱尔说,他已经习惯了别人嘲笑自己为布什的 “ 哈巴狗 ”.