單詞
wiseacre
英 ['wa?ze?k?]
美['wa?zek?]
基本信息
- n. 自以為聰明者
中文詞源
wiseacre 自以為無所不知的人
wise,聰明的，智慧的，-acre,詞源不詳。詞義貶義化。
英文詞源
- wiseacre
- wiseacre: [16] Wiseacre has no etymological connection with acres. The word’s ancestral meaning is ‘person who sees or knows things, prophet’. It was borrowed from Middle Dutch wijsseggher, which denoted ‘soothsayer’ (with no derogatory connotations). And this in turn came from Old High German wīssago, an alteration (due to the similarity of wīs ‘wise’ and sagen ‘say’) of wīzago ‘prophet’, which was derived from the prehistoric Germanic base *wīt- ‘know’ (source of English wise and wit).
- wiseacre (n.)
- 1590s, partial translation of Middle Dutch wijssegger "soothsayer" (with no derogatory connotation), probably altered by association with Middle Dutch segger "sayer" from Old High German wizzago "prophet," from wizzan "to know," from Proto-Germanic *wit- "to know" (see wit (v.)). The deprecatory sense of "one who pretends to know everything" may have come through confusion with obsolete English segger "sayer," which also had a sense of "braggart" (mid-15c.).
雙語例句
- 1. Jack is a wiseacre who hears the grass grow.
- 杰克是個自作聰明的人,對什么事都非常敏感.
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