crackpot

英 ['krækpɒt]美 ['krækpɑt]

n. 狂想家，疯子；怪人

adj. 不切实际的，想入非非的

英文词源

crackpot (n.)

"mentally unbalanced person," 1898, probably from crack (v.) + pot (n.1) in a slang sense of "head." Compare crack-brain "crazy fellow" (late 16c.). Earlier it was used in a slang sense "a small-time big-shot" (1883), and by medical doctors in reference to a "metallic chinking sometimes heard when percussion is made over a cavity which communicates with a bronchus."

双语例句

1. She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us.

她和我们一样正常。

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2. That's not the way to do it, you crackpot.

不是那样做的蠢材.

来自辞典例句

3. He was prone to dismiss himself as " that well - known crackpot ".

他常自嘲为 “ 那个著名的怪人 ”.

来自辞典例句

4. That crackpot thinks his neighbors are aliens.

那位疯子认为他的邻居是外星人.

来自辞典例句

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