cockeyed

参见：cock-eyed

英语

其他形式

• cock-eyed (英国)

词源

cock +‎ eyed

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈkɒkˌaɪd/, /ˌkɒkˈaɪd/

形容词

cockeyed (比较级 more cockeyed，最高级 most cockeyed)

1. 内斜视的，斗鸡眼的
2. 弯曲的，歪斜的
   • 1950, Langston Hughes, Simple Speaks His Mind, Chapter 12, in The Early Simple Stories, The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 7, edited by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 60–61,

     This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg.

   • 2008, Stephen King, Just After Sunset:

     The Velcro closure of one sneaker had come loose and stuck up like a cockeyed tongue.

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3. (非正式) 荒唐的，愚蠢的 （一般形容想法而非人）

   近义词：参见Thesaurus:absurd

   I'm not going to go along with your cockeyed plot.

   我可不想掺和进你那荒唐的阴谋里。

   • 1938 四月, George Orwell [笔名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair], 章号 III, 出自 Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     As time went on, and the desultory rifle-fire rattled among the hills, I began to wonder with increasing scepticism whether anything would ever happen to bring a bit of life, or rather a bit of death, into this cock-eyed war.

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   • 2021年5月24日, Jason Zinoman, “Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic”, 出自 The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     While he [Bob Dylan] spent six decades singing about heartache, apocalypse and betrayal, a cockeyed humor has always informed his bleak worldview.

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4. 醉酒的

   近义词：参见Thesaurus:drunk

   • 1934, Sinclair Lewis, 章号 12, 出自 Work of Art, New York: P.F. Collier & Son，第 166 页:

     In the private office he said, "Mr. Barrow, I was going to quit."
     "Don't do that, son! You're the only executive I've got that isn't cockeyed all the time! […] "

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相关词汇

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