| 单词 | quack |
| 释义 | Related topics: Colours & sounds, Animalsquack1 /kwæk/ verb [intransitive] CHBAto make the sound a duck makes 作鸭叫声，发出〔鸭子般的〕嘎嘎声→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusquack• She began a frantic quacking at the moment that Cyril got his two hands around her.• Young kids used to quack at us as we went past.• The water is full of thrashing, quacking excitement.• He gobbled, be quacked, grunted, swallowed syllables.• About a dozen mallard ducks were sleeping on the sand or quacking in a subdued manner under the dock.• Clearly, enough investors think that Donald Duck will quack on into the twenty-second century!• One wing's shredded, one's flapping, it's quacking up a storm.Related topics: Colours & sounds, Nurses, doctors, etcquack2 noun [countable] 1. Cthe sound a duck makes 〔鸭子发出的〕嘎嘎声2 MAsomeone who pretends to be a doctor – used to show disapproval 冒牌医生，江湖医生〔含贬义〕 → quackery quacks selling weight-loss drugs 兜售减肥药的江湖医生3 British English informalMN a doctor 医生 You’d better go and see the quack with that burn. 你最好去找医生看看那处烧伤。Examples from the Corpusquack• You may be considered an elitist or a quack.• But when they open their mouths the same old hacking quacks come out, the same old self-serving screeds.• There is always some magic remedy that will cure it, or some whizz-kid quack with a patent method.• If she mentioned paranoia, Buzz would insist that Elinor was the victim of a lot of quacks.• Larry paid some quack over a thousand dollars to cure his insomnia.• That quack doesn't know anything about treating heart disease.quack3 adjective [only before noun] relating to the activities or medicines of someone who pretends to be a doctor 冒牌医生(用)的 → quackery a quack remedy 江湖医生的疗法Examples from the Corpusquack• Many of those quack doctors were busy selling their own, often more dangerous diet cures.• a quack remedy for coldsOrigin quack1 (1600-1700) From the sound quack2 1. (1800-1900) → QUACK12. (1600-1700) quacksalver “quack” ((16-19 centuries)), from early Dutch, probably from quacken “to quack, talk” + salf “cure”quack1 verbquack2 nounquack3 adjectiveChinese Corpus the a to sound duck make makes |
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