gimmick
英 ['gɪmɪk]
美 ['ɡɪmɪk]
- n. 暗機關；騙人的玩意；花招
- vt. 使暗機關；搞騙人的玩意
助記提示
1. perhaps an alteration of gimcrack, or that it began as gimac, an anagram of magic.
2. gimmick 音“機密客”→機密客的花招.
3. game + trick => *gammick => gimmick.
4. game + magic => gimmick.
5. 諧音“機迷客、給迷客”。
中文詞源
gimmick 花招，把戲來自gimcrack的拚寫變體，花裏胡哨的，花招，把戲。
英文詞源
- gimmick
- gimmick: [20] Gimmick originally meant ‘dishonest contrivance’ – indeed, in the first known printed reference to it, in George Maine’s and Bruce Grant’s Wise-crack dictionary 1926 (an American publication), it is defined specifically as a ‘device for making a fair game crooked’. The modern sense ‘stratagem for gaining attention’ seems to have come to the fore in the 1940s. The origins of the word are a mystery, although it has been suggested that it began as gimac, an anagram of magic used by conjurers.
- gimmick (n.)
- 1910, American English, perhaps an alteration of gimcrack, or an anagram of magic.
In a hotel at Muscatine, Iowa, the other day I twisted the gimmick attached to the radiator, with the intention of having some heat in my Nova Zemblan booth. ["Domestic Engineering," January 8, 1910]
雙語例句
- 1. He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.
- 他不理會這件事,隻當它是一種宣傳手法.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. The tax cut is widely disparaged by senators from both parties as a budget gimmick.
- 兩個黨派的參議員們普遍對作為預算噱頭的稅收削減嗤之以鼻。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. It is just a public relations gimmick.
- 這隻不過是一種公關伎倆。
來自辭典例句
- 4. The basic gimmick was the distinguishing of one bank from the others.
- 基本決竅是區分某一銀行與其它銀行的標誌.
來自辭典例句
- 5. The advertisement is just a gimmick to make consumers buy their products.
- 宣傳隻是一種使消費者買他們產品的花招.
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