wonky
英语[编辑]
发音[编辑]
- (標準英音) 國際音標(幫助):/ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/
- (通用美式) 英語發音:wŏngʹkē、國際音標(幫助):/ˈwɑŋ.ki/, /ˈwɔŋ.ki/
(美国)音频: (檔案) (澳洲)音频: (檔案) - 韻部:-ɒŋki
词源 1[编辑]
源自英语方言词 wanky,变换自中古英語 wankel (“不稳的,摇摇晃晃的”),源自古英語 wancol (“不稳定的”),源自原始西日耳曼語 *wankul (“摇曳的,摇晃的,不稳的”)。
形容词[编辑]
wonky (比較級 wonkier,最高級 wonkiest)
- 歪斜的,偏倚的
- 近義詞: lopsided、awry、misaligned、skew-whiff
- (主要用於英國,澳大利亞,新西蘭) 虚弱的,不稳的,摇摇欲坠的
- 近義詞: rickety
- 1932, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Terror of the Form:
- It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (非正式,計算機,尤指Usenet) 断断续续出现错误(bug)的
- (非正式) 错误的
衍生词汇[编辑]
名词[编辑]
wonky (不可數)
- (音樂) 本詞語需要翻譯為漢語。請協助添加,並移除
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模板。- 2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers
- By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]
- 2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers
词源 2[编辑]
形容词[编辑]
wonky (比較級 wonkier,最高級 wonkiest)
- 行话的,充满行话的
- 2009, Jesse Dale Holcomb, Faith, Science and Trust: Climate Change Framing Effects and Conservative Protestant Opinion
- Climate change is an issue that might lend itself more easily to thematic framing in the news, due to the often highly technical and wonky language required to explain it.
- 2010, Michael Maslansky, Scott West, Gary DeMoss, David Saylor, The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics
- McCain's message, while similar in content and equally as valid, is lost in the minutiae of “'high-risk' pools” and wonky jargon.
- 2009, Jesse Dale Holcomb, Faith, Science and Trust: Climate Change Framing Effects and Conservative Protestant Opinion