quack是什么意思(基本释义,中文翻译)
If you call someone a quack or a quack doctor, you mean that they claim to be skilled in medicine but are not.
n. 庸医;江湖骗子

quack读音音标
英 [kwæk] 美 [kwæk]
quack词根
单词quack有两个常见意思,一指“嘎嘎”(鸭叫声),是个拟声词,模仿鸭子的叫声;另一个指“庸医、江湖骗子”,是个缩略词,在16世纪时写作quacksalver,借自早期荷兰语。
quacksalver意思是“庸医”或“江湖医生”,这些江湖郎中在沿街叫卖药膏(salve)及“万应药”等假药时,大吹大擂的样子很像鸭子在嘎嘎叫(quack),所以被形象地称为quacksalver。后来quacksalver被缩略为quack。
quack的例句
影视例句:
在美剧《马男波杰克》中,Bojack说到自己的需求时就用到这个单词:
Diane: You need her more than I do. And I think she can really help you.
Bojack: Help with what? I was looking for someone to hang out with during my lunch. I didn’t want some psycho-babbling quack job telling me to get in touch with my feelings.
-你比我更需要她,我认为她真的能帮到你。
-帮什么,我只是需要一个午休时间陪我的人,我才不需要什么满嘴术语的庸医教我怎么理清自己的感受。

外刊例句:
Polygraph tests are popular with credulous hacks and cranky quacks. In the 1940s, reports claimed a “lie-detector” test proved 43% of a sample of shop assistants had stolen stock or helped themselves from the till.
在那些容易上当受骗的雇员、古怪的江湖骗子中间,测谎仪很流行。在20世纪40年代,有报道称一项“测谎仪”测试证明,43%的店员曾偷过商品或从钱柜里偷过东西。
——《经济学人》
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