fiddle
英 ['fɪd(ə)l]
美 ['fɪdl]
- n. 小提琴
- vi. 瞎搞；拉小提琴
- vt. 虛度時光；拉小提琴
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1. fiddle (雙寫d然後加指小後綴-le).
2. Perhaps from Medieval Latin vitula "stringed instrument," which is perhaps related to Latin vitularia "celebrate joyfully," from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory.
3. 同源：viola, violin, fiddle.
4. 諧音“費的”----浪費的----浪費時間的、虛度光陰的。
5. 諧音“費的”----不停擺弄、調試東西當然很費時了。
6. Fiddler：Fiddler是一個http協議調試代理工具，它能夠記錄並檢查所有你的電腦和互聯網之間的http通訊，設置斷點，查看所有的“進出”Fiddler的數據（指cookie,html,js,css等文件，這些都可以讓你胡亂修改的意思）。 Fiddler 要比其他的網絡調試器要更加簡單，因為它不僅僅暴露http通訊還提供了一個用戶友好的格式。
7. JSFiddle.
8. 由於拉小提琴的時候手會不斷地擺動、移動，所以後來轉為貶義後就引申為“不停地擺弄、瞎擺弄、瞎搞”，甚至進而引申為“鬼混，閑蕩，虛度時光；欺騙，欺詐，詭計，不法行為”等含義。含義基本上都引申為趨於貶義化了。
9 violin <====> fiddle, vitula => fiddle, vitula => violin, viola (詞幹、詞根的尾輔音 t 脫落、丟掉、丟失).
中文詞源
fiddle 用提琴演奏，不停擺弄詞源有爭議。來自拉丁語vitula, 管弦樂器，詞源同violin, 來自羅馬歡樂和勝利女神Vitula.引申詞義不停擺弄。
英文詞源
- fiddle
- fiddle: [OE] Like its distant cousin violin, fiddle comes ultimately from the name of a Roman goddess of joy and victory. This was Vītula, who probably originated among the pre-Roman Sabine people of the Italian peninsula. A Latin verb was coined from her name, vītulārī, meaning ‘hold joyful celebrations’, which in post-classical times produced the noun vītula ‘stringed instrument, originally as played at such festivals’.
In the Romance languages this went on to give viola, violin, etc, but prehistoric West and North Germanic borrowed it as *fithulōn, whence German fiedel, Dutch vedel, and English fiddle. In English, the word has remained in use for the instrument which has developed into the modern violin, but since the 16th century it has gradually been replaced as the main term by violin, and it is now only a colloquial or dialectal alternative.
The sense ‘swindle’ originated in the USA in the mid-to-late 19th century.
=> violin - fiddle (n.)
- "stringed musical instrument, violin," late 14c., fedele, fydyll, fidel, earlier fithele, from Old English fiðele "fiddle," which is related to Old Norse fiðla, Middle Dutch vedele, Dutch vedel, Old High German fidula, German Fiedel "a fiddle;" all of uncertain origin.
The usual suggestion, based on resemblance in sound and sense, is that it is from Medieval Latin vitula "stringed instrument" (source of Old French viole, Italian viola), which perhaps is related to Latin vitularia "celebrate joyfully," from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory, who probably, like her name, originated among the Sabines [Klein, Barnhart]. Unless the Medieval Latin word is from the Germanic ones.
FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. [Ambrose Bierce, "The Cynic's Word Book," 1906]
Fiddle has been relegated to colloquial usage by its more proper cousin, violin, a process encouraged by phraseology such as fiddlesticks (1620s), contemptuous nonsense word fiddle-de-dee (1784), and fiddle-faddle. Century Dictionary reports that fiddle "in popular use carries with it a suggestion of contempt and ridicule." Fit as a fiddle is from 1610s. - fiddle (v.)
- late 14c., "play upon a fiddle," from fiddle (n.); the figurative sense of "to act nervously, make idle movements, move the hands or something held in them in an idle, ineffective way" is from 1520s. Related: Fiddled; fiddling.
雙語例句
- 1. Police investigating a £10 million car insurance fiddle arrested 16 people yesterday.
- 調查涉及1,000萬英鎊的汽車保險詐騙案的警察昨天逮捕了16人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Two of them got out to fiddle around with the engine.
- 其中兩人下車鼓搗引擎。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She hated the thought of playing second fiddle to Rose.
- 想到要身居羅斯之下她就很鬱悶。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Hardy as a young man played the fiddle at local dances.
- 哈迪年輕時在當地舞會上演奏小提琴。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. He brought out the fiddle, its varnish cracked and blistered.
- 他取出了小提琴，它表麵的清漆已出現裂縫，還起了浮泡。
來自柯林斯例句