yenta

英 ['jentə] 美['jɛntə]

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释义

n. 长舌妇；好管闲事的女人；搬弄是非的女人

词态变化

复数: yentas;

英文词源

yenta (n.): "gossip, busybody," 1923, from Yente Telebende, comic strip gossip in 1920s-30s writing of Yiddish newspaper humorist B. Kovner (pen-name of Jacob Adler) in the "Jewish Daily Forward." It was a common Yiddish fem. proper name, altered from Yentl and said to be ultimately from Italian gentile "kind, gentle," earlier "noble, high-born" (see gentle).

双语例句

1. She is well known as a yenta in this neighborhood.: 她是这一带远近闻名的长舌妇.

2. Thanks, but Harvard doesn't give a degree in yenta.: 谢谢你的称赞, 但是哈佛不提供鸡婆学位.

英英释意

1. (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant

2. (Yiddish) a woman gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal

实用场景例句

She is well known as a yenta in this neighborhood.: 她是这一带远近闻名的长舌妇.

Thanks, but Harvard doesn't give a degree in yenta.: 谢谢你的称赞, 但是哈佛不提供鸡婆学位.

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