sleazy
英 ['sliːzɪ]
美 ['slizi]
助記提示
1. Silesia (西裏西亞) => Slesia => Sleasia => Sleasie => sleasy => sleaze.
2. It is common practice to name fabrics after their place of manufacture, and from the 17th century that applied to cloth made in Silesia.
3. sleazy, originally used to describe the thinness and low quality of cloth.
4. 諧音“絲泥若、絲劣若、絲爛若”。
中文詞源
sleazy 汙穢的，肮髒的，道德敗壞的來自輔音叢 sl-,黏滑的，淤泥的，泥漿的，比較 slop,slosh,slough,sludge.引申詞義髒肮的，汙 穢的等。
英文詞源
- sleazy (adj.)
- 1640s, "downy, fuzzy," later "flimsy, unsubstantial" (1660s), of unknown origin; one theory is that it is a corruption of Silesia, the German region, where thin linen or cotton fabric was made for export. Silesia in reference to cloth is attested in English from 1670s; and sleazy as an abbreviated form is attested from 1670), but OED is against this. Sense of "sordid" is from 1941. Related: Sleazily; sleaziness.
A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleazy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web. [Emerson, "The Conduct of Life," 1860]
雙語例句
- 1. The accusations are making the government's conduct appear increasingly sleazy.
- 這些指控讓政府的行為顯得越發不光彩了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. They took me to a sleazy back - street hotel.
- 他們把我帶到一個後街的肮髒的旅館.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Downstairs in the windowless basement, where the real work is done, it is sleazy and sweaty.
- 工作實際上在樓下沒有窗戶的地下室裏完成，又髒又累。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Her sleazy gossip was very off - putting.
- 她那低級的閑話令人倒胃口.
來自辭典例句
- 5. He looks like a bum who's been drowning his sorrows in sleazy dives.
- 他看起來象個遊手好閑之輩,整天泡在肮髒的下等酒吧借酒消愁.
來自辭典例句