bum
英 [bʌm]
美 [bʌm]
- n. 流浪汉；屁股；狂欢作乐；能力差的人；嗡嗡声；执达员（等于bumbailiff）
- vi. 流浪；靠乞讨过活；发嗡嗡声
- vt. 乞讨；闲荡
- adj. 无价值的；劣质的；很不愉快的
助记提示
bum：帮。这种人都是拉帮结伙的游荡——游手好闲的人；流浪汉。
【记法】分解为：bu（布）＋m（蒙），用布蒙起来
【联想】屁股当然要用布蒙起来，否则就是流氓
中文词源
bum 屁股，闲荡拟声词，屁股落地的声音。后词义进一步贬化，指闲荡，二流子等。
英文词源
- bum
- bum: There are two distinct words bum in English. By far the older, ‘buttocks’, is first recorded in John de Trevisa’s translation of Ranulph Higden’s Polychronicon 1387: ‘It seemeth that his bum is out that hath that evil [piles]’. It is not clear where it comes from. The other, ‘tramp, loafer’, and its associated verb ‘spend time aimlessly’ [19], chiefly American, probably come from an earlier bummer, derived from the German verb bummeln ‘loaf around, saunter’ (familiar to English speakers from the title of Jerome K Jerome’s novel Three Men on the Bummel 1900, about a jaunt around Germany).
- bum (n.1)
- "buttocks," late 14c., "probably onomatopœic, to be compared with other words of similar sound and with the general sense of 'protuberance, swelling.' " [OED]
- bum (n.2)
- "dissolute loafer, tramp," 1864, American English, from bummer "loafer, idle person" (1855), probably from German slang bummler "loafer," from bummeln "go slowly, waste time." Bum first appears in a German-American context, and bummer was popular in the slang of the North's army in the American Civil War (as many as 216,000 German immigrants in the ranks). Bum's rush "forcible ejection" first recorded 1910.
- bum (adj.)
- "of poor quality," 1859, American English, from bum (n.). Bum steer in figurative sense of "bad advice" attested from 1901.
- bum (v.)
- 1863, "to loaf and beg," American English, a word from the Civil War, perhaps a back-formation from bummer "loafer," or from bum (n.). Meaning "to feel depressed" is from 1973, perhaps from bummer in the "bad experience" sense. Related: Bummed; bumming.
双语例句
- 1. She went off to bum round the world with a boyfriend.
- 她动身和一个男友去周游世界了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Mind if I bum a cigarette?
- 能给我一支烟吗？
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. He knows you're getting a bum deal.
- 他知道你在做一笔烂生意。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. John lost his job and went on the bum.
- 约翰失业后过着流浪生活.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.
- 在火车上有人捏她屁股,她打了那人.
来自《简明英汉词典》