sleazy
英['sliːzɪ]
美['slizi]
- adj. 质地薄的；肮脏的；低级庸俗的；破烂的
词态变化
比较级: sleazier;最高级: sleaziest;名词: sleaziness;
助记提示
1. Silesia (西里西亚) => 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. 谐音“丝泥若、丝劣若、丝烂若”。
中文词源
sleazy 污秽的，肮脏的，道德败坏的
来自辅音丛 sl-,黏滑的，淤泥的，泥浆的，比较 slop,slosh,slough,sludge.引申词义脏肮的，污 秽的等。
英文词源
- 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]
双语例句
- 1. The accusations are making the government's conduct appear increasingly sleazy.
- 这些指控让政府的行为显得越发不光彩了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. They took me to a sleazy back - street hotel.
- 他们把我带到一个后街的肮脏的旅馆.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. Downstairs in the windowless basement, where the real work is done, it is sleazy and sweaty.
- 工作实际上在楼下没有窗户的地下室里完成，又脏又累。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Her sleazy gossip was very off - putting.
- 她那低级的闲话令人倒胃口.
来自辞典例句
- 5. He looks like a bum who's been drowning his sorrows in sleazy dives.
- 他看起来象个游手好闲之辈,整天泡在肮脏的下等酒吧借酒消愁.
来自辞典例句