單詞
mossback
英 ['m?sb?k]
基本信息
- n. （美）綠毛龜；極端保守的人；鄉(xiāng)巴佬
英文詞源
- mossback (n.)
- "conservative," 1874, especially of poor whites from Carolina, originally (1872) in reference to those who hid out to avoid service in the Confederate army (and would have stayed out till the moss grew on their backs); from moss + back (n.).
雙語例句
- 1. I enjoy appearing to be a mossback. People expect so little from you.
- 我倒樂意看起來像一個(gè)思想落伍的人, 那樣人們就不會(huì)指望你什么了.
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- 2. The undershell tilted and swayed beneath llf now as the mossback started forward.
- 里夫下面的殼隨著山姆向前走動(dòng)晃來晃去的.
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