中文词源
newfangled 新奇时髦的
new,新的，fang,牙齿，咬。引申词义咬住最新的，与时俱进的，新奇时髦的。
英语词源
- newfangled
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newfangled: see fang
- newfangled (adj.)
- late 15c., "addicted to novelty," literally "ready to grasp at all new things," from adjective newefangel "fond of novelty" (late 14c.), from new + -fangel "inclined to take," from root of Old English fon "to capture" (see fang). Sense of "lately come into fashion" first recorded 1530s. Fanglement "act of fashioning; something made" is from 1660s. Middle English had gar-fangel "fish-spear."
权威例句
- 1. I don't like all these newfangled gadgets.
- 这些新潮玩意儿我不都喜欢.
- 2. We need better teachers, not newfangled ideas about education!
- 我们需要更好的老师, 而不是新奇的教育想法!
- 3. Those newfangled inventions are no better than my old machines.
- 那些新奇发明品不及我的旧机器.
- 4. We need better teachers, not newfangled ideas of education!
- 我们需要更好的教师, 而不是新花样的教育思想!
- 5. You and your newfangled notions!
- 又来了,又是你那些时髦儿货色.